Well, if you really want to get your hand at photography, I would rather suggest you stop reading this, grab your cameras and start experimenting. But then, I have been asked to write and I couldn’t say ‘no’. And yes, I ain’t any professional photographer, but just another amateur.

So, what should I start with? Okay, equipments.

Actually beginners don’t need anything else other than a camera, and that too, a digital one. (Even I use a digital camera till date.) And if you are somewhere out, I recommend you carry spare memory cards and batteries. That’s all for equipments, I guess.

You need not worry about location. You can click anywhere and anything. Even a trash-full store will work. As for me, I started clicking in my garden; yes, plants are a good thing to start with. You can click anything: pens, glasses, plugholes, flower, et cetera, et cetera. When we were nanhe-munhe kids and were asked to draw something, the first thing that came to our mind would be, most probably, a landscape. But, it’s not the same here. Don’t even let that idea into your skulls. Landscpae photgraphy would seem easy, but it isn’t, unless you are focusing on something in the frame. To start, I suggest you click objects around you.

The question now comes: how to click?

Even a country bumpkin can click, if handed a camera. But that won’t be called ‘photography’.

All you need to take care of is: the focus and the angle. By angle, I obviously not mean the mathematics one, but from where you click. If you are clicing some object closely, you need to consider the distance too. Moving the camera by centi-metres may produce different results. Talking of focus, it is something that can turn a normal picture into an awesome or rather, wowsome picture. Focusing on something makes other things (in most cases: the background) a little blurry. Try clicking different things, from different angles and you will end up with some really nice clicks, which will deserve the term ‘photography’.

Now that you have clicked, you will want to give them the last touch: editing. You can crop your picture or add vignetting; anything you wish.

And you won’t mind checking few of my clicks:

Well, that’s all from me. I don’t think I have anything else to tell you. Umm, wait… Best of luck!