Ever since I bought my new camera Canon Rebel XS, I have learnt more and more about photography. But its all in bits and pieces, you learn a bit about exposure, then you find an article about f-stops and you never complete what you started. Learning or reading on the internet is like that, there’s always something new to read and something else to distract you. So I thought I would put down my learning down as notes, in one place. Maybe one day somebody will just put them together to make a handy learning-photography-for-the-beginner kind of book(I can dream can’t I?). So join me as I explore the world of photography.
First, lets understand what the purpose of photography is. As a software engineer, I have been taught to always build the software based on the customer’s needs. In the case of photography, there are two kinds of customer base -
- Those who use a photograph as a substitute for a real object. In this case the idea is to imitate real life as closely as possible. The photograph has to depict the entire scene when it was taken as accurately as possible.
- Those who see a photograph as a way of expression. In this case, the photographer might use various effects and the viewer of the photograph views it as art rather than depiction of a real life object.
I feel that all photographs fall in either of the above categories or somewhere in between the two. Now, to use a photography as an art medium, I believe one must first understand how to use it for depicting real life accurately. So lets start from there. Keep waiting for Learning Photography – 2, were I will start with the technicalities. 
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