How to take a perfect photo? Grab a camera, look through it’s small window to view your subject, and press the button; and there you have it, picture perfect!
We all wish photography is as easy as this. However, there is so much to take note of and so many to consider before one can learn beginning photography. Before the mention of the complicated terms like focus, aperture, or shutter speed, it pays to know the very basics-the basic components of a camera.
A camera has a number of components by the way; but as a beginner, we can start familiarizing ourselves with the simplest ones. And when we say simple, we exclude digital photography first.
Number one component to familiarize on is the viewfinder. It is the small window we use to view our subjects. Every photographer looks through the viewfinder to take a photo perfect.
Number two is the shutter release. This is the button we press to take our photos. This button releases the shutter mechanism.
Number three, of course, is the shutter. The shutter controls the amount of time the light exposes the film, thus imprinting the image we wanted to capture.
Our number four then should be the lens. This component generally draws light in to the camera.
And lastly, number five, is the camera body. This is basically the entire casing that holds all the camera parts.
Even with just these basic information in mind, we can be much more confident the next time we bring our camera with us. We can easily answer and even identify when a friend asks basic questions about our camera and its parts. However, it is very important that we should not stop here. We should progress and even more familiarize ourselves with all the components. We should learn everything that we can to make us appreciate more the beauty of photography, the beauty no other art forms can capture.
