Learning Taking Photos Better

Today is such a good day. After spending the whole day at home - like Lazy Song by Bruno Mars - I just don't do anything at all. Laying on the bed, surviving the cold of winter, and occasionally went to the bathroom. If it's not for my hungry stomach, I won't really cook my food. And if it's not for the promise I made to meet my friend, I won't really go out today. But thanks to him, I got two blissful things: free food and camera lessons.

The free food was provided by the events we went too. It was a culture day for the foreigners living in Korea held by the Global Center, and more like get-together event. The best part was that after the event they treated all of the participants with pizza! Hahaha! That's sure a thing!

After we made sure that we were full enough (we planned to stay longer at the restaurants though), we went by the famous Cheonggyecheon Stream. There was Christmas event there, where they put LED lights along the river. My friends and I decided to go there to take some photos while we enjoying the beauty of the stream.

My friends were using DSLR camera, while I'm just with my pocket camera. But it's nice though to listen to them discussing about camera things. I decided to imitate them, did some manual settings on my pocket camera; the results were nice! I could capture better and learn how powerful even a pocket camera can be. Here were some of the results that made me satisfied today for learning something new about camera settings. Definitely if I made enough money, I wanna go with better camera and lenses.

All that I learned today is when taking photos of LED decorations during the night, go with low ISO (I used 200-400). You need steady hand, so the picture won't be blurry. Set lower shutter speed (I used 1/100) so there's not so much light comes into your camera. For the focus, I used 1/2.8 (Because when I went higher, the pictures just turn bad). Haha of course this is not professional tips, but it's really helpful for an amateur like me. But it's helpful instead off using the auto mode every time. This time I feel satisfied as I can get I picture closer to what I want.

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