Turn Your Shots into Amazing Photos: Beginners' Handbook, Revised Edition

‘Turn Your Shots into Amazing Photos, Beginners’ Handbook’ is for those amateur photographers who enjoy clicking photos and want to improve their photography. If you would like your friends to say ‘Wow!’ looking at your photos, then this book is for you. From this book, you will learn how to beautifully compose your frame; whether to keep your subject in the middle or at one side of your frame based on the characteristics of your subject. You will learn which angle to use for which type of subject and why, like a professional photographer! This book will help you learn to operate your camera in a better way, so that you could enhance the creativity of your photos. There is also a chapter on how photography started and how cameras evolved over the centuries. You will also learn how you could ensure whenever you click the shutter it turns into a good photograph. Furthermore, you will learn to turn your good photographs into Great Photographs by displaying a universal theme! You will know about lenses—which type of lens is good for which type of subjects and how you can change the impression your subject creates by changing the angle of the lens, and lens care. You will learn to utilize aperture and shutter speed settings creatively to turn an ordinary shot into a stunning one! You will know how to focus perfectly, how to set exposure and white balance correctly. You will learn about four important factors relating to light, four different directions of light, and types of light; know how to compose your frame and apply different techniques to draw attention to your subject, including different types of framing; how to take great portraits; how to take great landscape; and you will also know about Art or Abstract Photography and different aspects of it. In addition, Turn Your Shots into Amazing Photos, Beginners’ Handbook’ also covers how to create interesting and thought-provoking Photo Stories, and lastly, how to edit photos like a pro photographer to correct exposure and colour in Photoshop. And all these concepts are explained in this book with lots of images, so that you can see the results of applying each technique. Furthermore, to test your learning, there are small Quizzes and Assignments for you to practice. So, let’s start and turn your shots into Amazing Photos! This book was first published in May 2023. After publishing I went to several photography tours at beautiful places and took some new images. So, I decided to add some of the new images and also make this book easier to understand and follow. That is why I published this revised edition. This book is mainly for amateurs, but as you progress through the book you will start thinking like a professional photographer and after finishing the book, who knows, you might decide to take up photography as your profession!