Taking a good photograph isn't as hard as you might think. You don't need the most expensive camera or years of experience, just 10 basic strategies. Enjoy!
1. Use All Your Available 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. Keep distractions out of your shot
2. Review Forms. This is a vital facet to photography. Understanding forms in your shots. Don't see an object, she its shape and its form and look for the best angle to photograph it from. Form is all around us and I highly advise you read as many books on it as you possibly can.
3. Movement in Your Photographs. Never have movement in your photos if you are taking pictures of a still object. If there's something moving while you're aiming to take pictures of a stationery object, your picture will not turn out anywhere near as well. Likewise never put a horizon line in the middle of your frame.
4. Discover Ways To Make use of Contrasts Between Colors. Some of the best photographs have shades of white, gray and black. You may take good pictures with just one color on your subject, but the contrasts between colors in a photo are what make you a great photographer.
5. 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.
6. Shutter Lag. Shooting action shots with digital cameras can be tricky due to shutter lags. What this means is, when you press the button to take the photo, it can take up to a second for the shutter to take a photo, by that time what you were photographing would have moved or changed somehow. This means you have to compensate for shutter lag by predicting what your subject is going to do and taking the photo just before it takes the action you want. More expensive digital cameras don't have this problem.
7. Pan. If you are taking an action picture and your shutter speed is slow, pan with the object. Follow through with the subject, from start to finish and one of those shots would be a winner. You've more opportunity of getting a good shot if you take more than one picture.
8. Continuous Shots. To pan like I recommended above you will need a camera that does continuous shots and does not need to stop and process after every shot.
9. How to Take Great Night Time Shots. Night time photographs could be spectacular, almost magical.... if done right! Otherwise they could appear horrible. Really terrible. Without adequate lighting, even great cameras can end up crappy photographs if the photographer does not understand what he or she is doing.
10. Go through Your Manual. If your digital camera features a special night time function, look at manual and follow their instructions for you to use it correctly.
1. Use All Your Available 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. Keep distractions out of your shot
2. Review Forms. This is a vital facet to photography. Understanding forms in your shots. Don't see an object, she its shape and its form and look for the best angle to photograph it from. Form is all around us and I highly advise you read as many books on it as you possibly can.
3. Movement in Your Photographs. Never have movement in your photos if you are taking pictures of a still object. If there's something moving while you're aiming to take pictures of a stationery object, your picture will not turn out anywhere near as well. Likewise never put a horizon line in the middle of your frame.
4. Discover Ways To Make use of Contrasts Between Colors. Some of the best photographs have shades of white, gray and black. You may take good pictures with just one color on your subject, but the contrasts between colors in a photo are what make you a great photographer.
5. 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.
6. Shutter Lag. Shooting action shots with digital cameras can be tricky due to shutter lags. What this means is, when you press the button to take the photo, it can take up to a second for the shutter to take a photo, by that time what you were photographing would have moved or changed somehow. This means you have to compensate for shutter lag by predicting what your subject is going to do and taking the photo just before it takes the action you want. More expensive digital cameras don't have this problem.
7. Pan. If you are taking an action picture and your shutter speed is slow, pan with the object. Follow through with the subject, from start to finish and one of those shots would be a winner. You've more opportunity of getting a good shot if you take more than one picture.
8. Continuous Shots. To pan like I recommended above you will need a camera that does continuous shots and does not need to stop and process after every shot.
9. How to Take Great Night Time Shots. Night time photographs could be spectacular, almost magical.... if done right! Otherwise they could appear horrible. Really terrible. Without adequate lighting, even great cameras can end up crappy photographs if the photographer does not understand what he or she is doing.
10. Go through Your Manual. If your digital camera features a special night time function, look at manual and follow their instructions for you to use it correctly.
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