12/23/2011

Photography As A Hobby or Career

By Sheena Schlotter Willenbring


Are you ready to make your ideas come to life? Do you need to learn how and where to start the process? Do you have any idea about what works for own shots? Do some research and experiment with your camera's features to find out what works well.

One of the most important elements of photography is the ability to frame a shot. Make sure to not have distracting background items, but zoom in on your major focal point. When you do this, you avoid having a cluttered photo with unintended focal points.

Digital cameras almost always have a built-in flash that will go off when the external light is too dim. This flash is great for quick shots, but more professional photographs should use an external component for flash and lighting. Look at your camera and determine whether or not it features a "hot shoe" near the top; this is where the external flash unit attaches to the camera. If your camera can accommodate the external flash, bring it with you to the camera store to find the right model.

The key to a great picture is knowing what scenes and environments require flash or not. It's not something to just always leave on auto. There are some situations where adding more light than necessary will ruin a picture. If there is not much light around in your scene, the flash should be turned on.

Read your camera's instruction manual. Camera manuals have a certain bulky heft that discourages reading. Most people put them back in the box or toss them without ever looking at them. If the manual is going to get tossed or buried, it should at least be read first. Doing this can drastically improve your photos and solve the common problems and questions that come up.

Download photo editing software at no cost, and find out what it can do. Professional photographers need software to clean up photographs, and you can do the same. It's possible to take an ordinary photograph and make it stellar with only a few slight alterations.

After reading this article, you should have some new ideas to improve your own pictures. Refer to this article whenever you need a refresher or some new ideas. Keep working on it and be persistent and you will be able to take your photography to the next level.




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