People love to take pictures. The little known answer is that photographers put a ton of effort into their craft. The information below gives advice about those methods that can be used to attain much higher quality photographs.
Don’t dilly-dally when taking your photographs. If you wait too long, you risk losing your shot due to changing scenery. The faster your camera is ready to take pictures, the better.
Use some digital techniques to make watercolor, pencil sketches, and oil painting photos. Adobe Photoshop is the standard for visual artists, but there are also a variety of other image editing suites for you to choose from. Providing your photos with those artistic conversions is simply a matter of opening the “filter” menu and picking the effect you find most appealing.
Field depth is a critical feature when shooting landscapes. Put a person in the foreground to get the sense of scale of the surroundings. If you set a small aperture, one that is not greater than f/8 (for many digital cameras that are made for consumers), or f/16 (on a full-frame SLR) you will notice that your foreground and background look sharp.
Make sure that your arms remain next to your body when you hold a camera, and make sure that the sides and the bottom of the camera are supported. This keeps the camera steady and reduces the number of blurred shots you take. Putting your hands underneath the camera and lens, instead of on top, will also prevent you from accidentally dropping your camera.
When you are choosing which photographs you want to display, look at each picture you have taken and only choose your favorites. Resist any temptation to show all of your photos or to display many pictures of similar subjects or settings. Your audience does not get as much out of each picture, and can become quickly bored from seeing the same photo subject matter over and over. Be fresh, and try different kinds of photography.
Here is a good photo tip! When you know how the shutter speed affects your photographs, you can manipulate them to add interest to your pictures. You should see letters on your camera: P, M, A and S. P means your program mode. This will have the shutter speed ad aperture already set. If you do not wish to work with these features, you should select P.
One of the key ways to take great photographs is to take lots and lots of them, so buy a large memory card that can hold them all. Optimizing your storage capacity will ensure that you do not waste time changing memory cards or choosing shots to delete during a session. An added benefit of a larger memory card is that you will be able to shoot in RAW (if your camera has this capability). The RAW format preserves more details than JPEG and allows for a lot of flexibility once you get into post-production.
Take shots from a wide variety of angles to catch different perspectives. Whether you settle on shooting from above, below, the right or left, experiment, or take shots from each angle to decide post-shooting.
Find something suitable and interesting to photograph. You could have wonderful equipment, excellent skill in composition and the technical end of photography, but without a good subject, you won’t have a good picture. Chose inanimate objects that inspire you, or search for a willing participant that can act as your muse.
Pre-focus your camera and move to where your subject isn’t dead center in the frame. Perfect composition is not necessarily the most interesting or artistic photographic technique. An off-centered shot is likely to appear more interesting in the eyes of the viewer.
Taker your camera and start practicing these tricks. You will find your photo’s quality improving in no time!
