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 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 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 is a vital aspect to photography. Gain an understanding of forms and shapes composition in your photos. Don't see an object, see its shape and its composition and find the best angle to photograph it from. Form and shapes are all around us in our world. Read up as many books on them as possible. It will amaze you once you understand 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 Inside your Photographs - Under no circumstances have motion within your photographs if you are photographing a nevertheless object. If there exists some thing moving while you are trying to photograph a stationery object, your photo won't turn out anyplace close to too. Also never place a horizon line within the center of the frame. It should be on the reduce or upper third of the image.
Tip 7 - Shutter Lag - Shooting action shots with digital camera's 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.
Tip 8 - Panning - For anyone who is taking an action shot using slower shutter speed, use panning for special effect. Follow the object by moving (panning) the camera from start to finish. One of those shots will likely turned out to be spectacular. You have great chance of getting a good shot if you take multiple photos.
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 Fantastic Night Time Shots - Night time shots can be spectacular, almost magical if done right. If not they can look horrible. Without adequate lighting, even a good camera can turn out really bad pictures if the photographer doesn't know what he or she is doing.
Have fun photo shooting!
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 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 is a vital aspect to photography. Gain an understanding of forms and shapes composition in your photos. Don't see an object, see its shape and its composition and find the best angle to photograph it from. Form and shapes are all around us in our world. Read up as many books on them as possible. It will amaze you once you understand 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 Inside your Photographs - Under no circumstances have motion within your photographs if you are photographing a nevertheless object. If there exists some thing moving while you are trying to photograph a stationery object, your photo won't turn out anyplace close to too. Also never place a horizon line within the center of the frame. It should be on the reduce or upper third of the image.
Tip 7 - Shutter Lag - Shooting action shots with digital camera's 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.
Tip 8 - Panning - For anyone who is taking an action shot using slower shutter speed, use panning for special effect. Follow the object by moving (panning) the camera from start to finish. One of those shots will likely turned out to be spectacular. You have great chance of getting a good shot if you take multiple photos.
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 Fantastic Night Time Shots - Night time shots can be spectacular, almost magical if done right. If not they can look horrible. Without adequate lighting, even a good camera can turn out really bad pictures if the photographer doesn't know what he or she is doing.
Have fun photo shooting!
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