Friday, April 20, 2012

Tips for Better Beach Photography

By Roy Barker


Time to head out for the beach! When you do, don't forget to bring your camera with you. Remember, such places of natural beauty will help you come up with some interesting photos to add to your personal album and your portfolio also.

Nevertheless a few individuals do not even trouble to bring their cameras with them as they head out for the beach. For them, all beach shots look the same. Well, this should not be the case: if you know how to do it properly. To help take your beach photography talents to a higher level, here's some advice that you may find useful:

Look for engaging focal points. While the landscape could be quite lovely, the lack of a focus will render your photographs quite lifeless and uninteresting. So , look for things that tell a tale or anything that may give your spectators ' eyes a place to rest. Do this and you'll see how this tip alone can help you enhance your shots!

Shoot when the time is right. Shooting in the early morning or late in the afternoon will allow you to capture the exciting interplay of colors and shadows and this will give your shots a more interesting twist. You need to also try taking pictures of the beach during bad weather - a point in time when the beach truly takes a life of its own.

Use the proper settings. Shooting in automated mode can be quite challenging especially when you're shooting under astonishingly bright conditions. Therefore if your camera has a manual mode, consider experimenting with it to determine which level of exposure will work best. You can also use your camera's spot metering capability function to triumph over that problem.

Use your flash. To avoid casting shadows on people's faces when shooting under intensely bright light, you should think about employing your flash. If your camera gives you a method to control the strength of your flash, you must consider fiddling with it since using it at full strength can leave your subjects looking lifeless and dead.

Consider using appropriate lens filters. When shooting in the beach, you need to think about employing your camera's UV and polarizing filters. Your UV filters can help protect your camera lens against the elements and filter out undesired UV rays while your polarizing filters help to reduce reflections and augment the contrast in your photos. You will surely improve images this way!

You should really try putting these tips into action next time you head out for the beach. Follow this advice and you may even amaze yourself at how good your beach stills will turn out to be!




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