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Hello guys, so i just bought a nikon d7100 for taking pictures. So my problem is that i have literally no skills in photography but now that i have an online business so i wanted take some good looking professional pictures. 

 

I just wanted to ask if there a book or a video course that would help take good portrait images (pose and guides) and acknowledge with those technical terms like aperture, colour depth, f2.3 etc....

 

:)  :)  :)

PEACE..

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Why do you buy that thing if you have no skill? wtf.

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Why do you buy that thing if you have no skill? wtf.

  

Really man... There is a first time for everything.....

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Try some of these:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcgySslGPA

 

 

And then some tutorials in to basic photo editing in photoshop:

 

 

 

 

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Thanks Elven, Will surely watch them....  :)

 

And i am quite good with Photoshop..

I use it for editing and creating graphics for my websites....

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@defploit

 

No problem. Have a look around for youtube tutorials on the camera. See what people say and learn what it is best scenario is for. Then get some basics in photo shooting etc, through youtube. Youtube is a great resource to find out a lot for what concerns your needs. 

 

You will find a lot of the effort and final product process is in post-production (editing). Some basic knowledge on photoshop or for that matter, any picture editing softwarel, will give a good understanding on how to bring the best out of your capture image.

 

A lot of research will pay and you'll enjoy the results you'll accomplish. Not to mention impress the family/friends/people  :lol:

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Yeah man will sure do impress my friends..

 

Actually one of my colleague had this camera and i was the one who got impressed..

The next day i stopped by a camera store and asked the salesgirl what best dslr for beginners without compromising with the image quality she instantly showed this model and it was  the same camera..

 

I just bought it right away. 

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Look at Jared polin, he has some great videos (look towards more of his older stuff)

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Well it's not going to happen overnight but... 

 

YouTube doesn't really have that many really great channels for inspiration, but there are a few, for portraiture etc I would recommend these:

 

F-Stoppers:

 

Phlearn:

 

Outside of YouTube, the Creative Live workshops are great. Also recommend just trawling places like 500px.com and picking out your favorites and try to find out as much information as possible and then attempt to recreate something similar. 

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Hello guys, so i just bought a nikon d7100 for taking pictures. So my problem is that i have literally no skills in photography but now that i have an online business so i wanted take some good looking professional pictures. 

 

I just wanted to ask if there a book or a video course that would help take good portrait images (pose and guides) and acknowledge with those technical terms like aperture, colour depth, f2.3 etc....

 

:)  :)  :)

PEACE..

Im not sure on the level of your photography skills but first i would stick your camera in full manual, reasoning being this is the easiest way for you to learn what aperture, exposure and just to get a nice feel for how your camera works.  did this when i first got in to photography about a year and half ago and now im going on to study a degree in photography.

It takes a long time to understand everything and what everything means im good at self teaching so i didnt take that long. Have a look at the history of photography as well if you are interested in learning about it.  

 

But first things i would do is put the camera in manual (dont need to set focus to manual but i manual focus always) and play around with you setting see that each thing does. I would also highly suggest you shoot in raw as in raw its uncompressed and a lot easier to work with in post such as lightroom and photoshop.

I could try to explain a lot of it but it would be a lot of typing haha.

Check out these channels:

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatPhotographyTips

https://www.youtube.com/user/JaredPolin

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I recommend visiting some photography centric forums. I learned alot at www.dpreview.com and www.fredmiranda.com

Like any forum there are a lot of fanboys and politics, buy there is alot of info available for new photographers.

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SLR Lounge has a ton of video tutorials along with gear reviews. May be worth checking out if you're just getting started.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/SLRlounge

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Why do you buy that thing if you have no skill? wtf.

I did the same thing. I had very little skill when using my sister D3000 and now I have a D5300. Now I take pretty decent photos (in my opinion)

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Meetup.com. Has some workshops near you to learn photography. Some are free and some will cost you little scratch. I'd do the free ones to start out. You tube is also free and a great place to start!

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Have a watch of this guys videos. I watched them when I first started and it helped a lot on getting the basics down. Watch all except the most recent (Don't really know why its there...). 

https://www.youtube.com/user/ulufilms/videos

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Experiment man,

 

There is a wealth of information out there but the best thing is to go out and take photos of things you enjoy. Watching a video will give you a skill set on how to operate and use the cameras features to their best ability, but in the end its you behind the camera that will take the images and no video will help you with that.

 

:) Happy snapping!

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