Friday, October 12, 2012

10 Tips For Taking Better Photos

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 should be a must for improving your photography skills. Get to know your camera. If your camera has a special night time mode, read the manual and follow their instructions on how to 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 very important aspect to photography. It is also fundamental for learning composition. Obtain a thorough understanding of forms and shapes inside your pictures. Do not see an object, see its shape and its composition and discover the very best angle to photograph it from. Type and shapes are all around us in our planet. Study up as quite a few books on them as possible. It's going to amaze you once you realize the beauty of forms and shapes composition.

Tip 4 - Get Closer To Your Subject - This is one of the biggest mistakes most photographers make, not getting close enough to their subject. Get up and personal and close the distance gap. You can always reshape and resize a good shot but you can't continue to blowup a distant object without sacrificing the quality.

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 - When you are taking an action shot using slow shutter speed, panthe object. Follow the object as it moves,, from start out to finish. If you take multiple shots, one of these shots will likely be a winner. You have greater success of finding an excellent shot in the event you take far more than one photo.

Tip 9 - Continuous Shots - To pan like I suggested above you will need a camera that does continuous shots and doesn't need to stop and process after every shot.

Tip 10 - How you can Take Amazing Night Time Photos - Night time shots can be spectacular, just about magical if the photographer knows what he or she is doing. If not, the pictures will look horrible. In a night time environment which usually lack of sufficient lighting, even a great camera can turn out undesirable photos when the photographer does not know what he or she is getting into.

Have fun photo taking!




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