Friday, September 28, 2012

Ten Great Ideas For Improving Your Photography Skills

By Mandy Faye


Taking an excellent photo isn't as tricky as you may feel. It is not contingent on using a high priced camera, or accumulating years of professional experience. All you simply need is to learn the following ten strategies.

Tip 1 - Study Your Manual - This is a must first step for enhancing your photography expertise. Get to know your camera. In case your camera has some special features such as a particular night time mode, study the manual and follow their directions on how you can use it properly.

Tip 2 - Use Every Frame Space Available - Do not be afraid to utilize each of the space within your photo. If you need to take photo of an object, it really is ok for it to take up the entire shot with most of the space. This can avoid distractions out of the shot.

Tip 3 - Study Forms and Shapes - This can be a vital aspect to photography. Obtain an understanding of forms and shapes composition within your images. Do not see an object, look at its shape, form and its composition and try out various angles to photograph it from. Form and shapes are all around us in our daily life. Study up as numerous books on them as you possibly can. It's going to amaze you as soon as you recognize the beauty of forms and shapes composition.

Tip 4 - Get Closer To your Subject - This is a fundamental mistake most photographers make, taking picture too far away from their subject. Please do get close and personal. Close the distance gap. You'll be able to crop an excellent shot but you cannot magnify a distant object without trading off the quality of the picture.

Tip 5 - Learn To Use Contrasts Among Colors - Some of the best photos have shades of white, gray and black. You can take great shots with just one color on your subject, but the contrasts between colors in a shot is what makes it a great photo.

Tip 6 - Motion In Your Photos - Never have motion in your photos if you are photographing a still object. If there is something moving while you are trying to photograph a stationery object, your photo won't turn out anywhere near as well. Also never put a horizon line in the center of your frame. It should be on the lower or upper third of the picture.

Tip 7 - Shutter Lag Time - Shooting action shots with a digital camera could be tricky due to shutter lags. What this signifies is, once you press the shutter release button to take the photo, it may take as much as a second for the shutter to take a photo, by that time what you were photographing would have moved or changed somehow. This indicates you will need to compensate for shutter lag by predicting what your subject is going to accomplish and taking the photo just ahead of it takes the action you'd like. High priced name brand digital cameras do not have this problem.

Tip 8 - Panning - If you are taking an action shot and your shutter speed is slow, pan with the object. Follow through with the object, from start to finish and one of those shots will be a winner. You have more chance of getting a good shot if you take more then one photo.

Tip 9 - Continuous Shots - To pan as described in tip # eight above you will need a camera that has the function of taking continuous shots and doesn't need to stop and wait after every shot.

Tip 10 - How To Take Spectacular Night Time Pictures - Night time pictures can be spectacular, almost magical if done correctly. If not they can look horrible. Without enough lighting, even a good camera can turn out really bad pictures if the photographer is not in tuned with light environment he or she is in.

Have fun picture taking!




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