Is photography actually complex?

Well the answer to this is a big NO.. Believe me, it is fairly simple to take good photographs. The only way to realize this truth is by start taking photographs. What ever your camera..be it a simple "point and shoot" or a high end 'DSLR' start taking photographs today..now..Capture anything and everything you find interesting.

I started photography as a hobby about 3 years back. My first camera was a Sony(DSC H1). Now I own a Nikon D-80 and i have taken over 10,000 photographs. I believe that i have learnt a few valuable lessons during this time. Don't expect me to list it out here for you. The thing is you'll find most of these so called "valuable lessons" in the first few photography articles that you read. But to really understand them it takes time and a certain level of dedication.














So here is what I'm planning to do....

I'll post a series of assignments each of which will be targeted in improving a specific photography skill. I'll be posting a new assignment every week or two. I'll be doing these assignments myself and i'll post my experience in here as soon as I complete the assignment. Also you can see the photographs i have taken from my flicker account(I'm planning to set up a new one specially for this blog). The first few assignments will be fairly simple ones. Later on we can move to more difficult ones.

Assignment 1- Taking an uncluttered photograph

Whatever photograph you are taking this week make sure that you will try your best to exclude unwanted elements from your photograph. To avoid clutter you should know what clutter is. Anything that does not compliment the main subject(s) of your photograph is clutter. Clutter takes the attention of the viewer from the central subject. So you got the basic idea as to what this assignment is all about. Now pickup your camera and start shooting and come back here a few days later to see what i have learned and to share with me what you have learned.