The only capture device I have at that time was only a smartphone, which was oppo reno 2. It was an amazing phone with its capability. I did not pick up photography at first but started with setting up a live stream for educational classes with a phone and mic.

Due to the pandemic, all the educational and activity have to be conducted online using ZOOM or Skype. Whoever bought their market share will be rich by now. I hold a global live stream for my client. Gradually I bought gears for it and able to stream 4k video and amazing quality audio. If someone says gear doesn’t matter, well depends on you and your client. You could start with a phone, as I did and gradually upgrade to better equipment for your quality and workflow. Viewers won’t mind if the video quality is lower than 720P but if the audio sound bad, no one will understand the message you are conveying.

There was some bad experience, to begin with, but it is okay to go extra mile for your client or your work for starters. My bad experience was because of my selfishness and not willingness to hire an assistant. I am working Full-time as a machinist, got promoted this year in 2021 to a specialist engineer. Which double my workload and all my live stream conducted in the evening for weekdays and in the morning for the weekend. I have 5 minimum live stream event weekly, period. If I could rewind the time. I should have charged at a higher rate, so I could hire an assistant to work with and provide a stable internet connection.

To summarize, gears are important but won’t be immediate. There is a rental platform in Singapore with promotion and discount. Knowledge and skills play a big role but everything has to start with a passion. There is always room for improvement and opportunity.

Learning about colour combinations need to be the next step of photography apart from the composition technique. These skills are highly recommended but often ignored by many beginner photographers. Here is some information that I know of that could better assist your colour combination. The colour wheel provides a guideline, the link is below. Colours that look good together are called colour harmony. This creates a particular look or emotion. You can use a colour wheel to find colour harmonies by using the rules of colour combinations. Colour combinations determine the relative positions of different colours to find colours that create a pleasing effect. With that being said, all is left is practising different colour code in your daily life. If you are looking into black and white, the focus is on HUE and saturation.

I have experience discolouration when exporting from Lightroom to share to Social media platform. Usually, social media platform cannot read the RGB colour format and miss certain colour data during export. The correct way to export for social media is to use SRGB and embedded by exporting web legacy in photoshop.

Color wheel - color theory and calculator | Canva Colors