A Photographer and Beginner
Learning photography
This is a "meta article", listing some of our articles that are relevant when you want to learn photography. The articles are written with a practical mindset by photographers who have been able to collect a lot of photography experience over the years.
If you want to discuss these articles, or ask questions on how to improve your photography, you are warmly welcome in our New to Photography Forum.
This kind of photograph can be achieved with lots of practice, skills, timing and patience.
Taken by the Nikonian BCRose. Read the whole article with BCRose for inspiration.
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Some of our most popular how-to articles
- Understanding Depth of Field (DOF) and Aperture
- Depth of Field and Hyperfocal
- Exposure variables
- White balance
Making sure you carry your camera with you, no matter how trivial the plan might be, will provide you with keepers over time.
Nikon D3X, ISO 100, f9 at 1/1000s. Nikkor 24-70/2.8 AF-S. By bgs.
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Learn composition
- Why the rules of third
- Leading lines
- Developing a painter's eye
- Improving your foreground
- 5 easy composition tricks
Learn from other photographers in the "Behind the image" section
Our daily "Editor's Choice" photographers talk about what they did to achieve their image.
Other articles you may find helpful
- Photography technique (from our wiki)
- Understanding Nikon Picture Control
- Understanding your camera's histogram
- Camera / Flash Cookbook
- Camera hand holding technique
- The buying FAQs by JRP (this is a bit outdated, but lots of it still valid: which camera to get? which tripod to buy?)
- Which format? JPG, TIFF or RAW?
And, there is even more to read
Here you can see all of our how-to articles in a list form.
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Originally written on May 28, 2016
Last updated on September 1, 2023
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7 comments
Bo Stahlbrandt (bgs) on January 17, 2019
@Michael, Glad that you have found us - Please do let the others know a bit about yourself in our "New and Returning Members" forum: https://www.nikonians.org/forum/135/new-returning-members
Michael Lee (MLee1205) on January 17, 2019
WOW where do I begin? Have loved art and photography since childhood, usually from a spectator position. As stated in profile, I have an 'old reliable' D50 with couple good lenses. Couple this with NOW - semi retirement and time on my hands, we will venture into learning some photography before upgrading. So many articles to read, yet need to remember...baby steps. Wonderful to have found this site. Thanks, Michael
Darrell Young (DigitalDarrell) on December 29, 2018
I'll try to do more in the near future. Thank you for the kind words!
Bo Stahlbrandt (bgs) on December 24, 2018
Taro, Thanks for the kudos :-) The team behind Nikonians consists of a large group of members. Darrell Young is one of the authors. You can see the current team, which actually does not include all of our authors on our the team page: https://www.nikonians.org/teampage Happy Holidays!
Taro Chellaram (tchellaram) on December 24, 2018
Darrell, You are incredibly kind to share this knowledge extensively as you have done here. I have learnt quite a bit more as I read all the articles. (not yet finisheed) Thank you for sharing. Taro
Robert Kusztos (PhotoRoberto) on May 30, 2016
Helpful collection of articles about the basics of photography.
John Callaghan (smokinrt) on May 28, 2016
Thanks for posting this, it's just what I need to refresh on a few things.