Taking a good photo isn't as hard as you may think. You don't need the most expensive camera or years of experience, you just simply need to know 10 tips.
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 All Available Frame Space - Don't be afraid to use all the space in your photo. If you want to take a picture of something, it's ok for it to take up the whole shot with no or very little background showing. This can keep distractions out of your 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 For your Subject - This is one error most photographers make, not having close sufficient to their target. Get up and personal and close the distance gap. Normally, you are able to reshape and resize a good shot but you cannot continue to blowup a distant object without sacrificing the good 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 - 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 suggested above, you will want a camera that is capable of shooting continuously without stopping 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 photo shooting!
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 All Available Frame Space - Don't be afraid to use all the space in your photo. If you want to take a picture of something, it's ok for it to take up the whole shot with no or very little background showing. This can keep distractions out of your 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 For your Subject - This is one error most photographers make, not having close sufficient to their target. Get up and personal and close the distance gap. Normally, you are able to reshape and resize a good shot but you cannot continue to blowup a distant object without sacrificing the good 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 - 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 suggested above, you will want a camera that is capable of shooting continuously without stopping 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 photo shooting!
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