2/28/2012

How To Properly Utilize Your Camera's Full Potential!

By Lawrence Apricot


Photography has long been a passion for you but you feel as though you have room for improvement. You do not have a lot of time to spend by reading books or taking classes but would like some quick tips. This article is perfect for you and your photography interest.

Keep an eye out for all kinds of natural geometry when taking pictures. Pay special attention to any "lines" that your eye can pick up on in the area or on the subject that you will be shooting. Find the "line" and use it to take a good shot.

A great photography tip is to keep your sensor as clean as possible. If your sensor is dirty, you're going to end up with a dirty picture. Having a clean sensor can save you a lot of time by not having to clean up a photo in an image editing program.

Use manual white balance to spice up your photos. It is possible to let the camera decide the proper white balance for a given environment, but sometimes the camera will get it wrong and the photo will look washed out. Using a manual white balance also allows you to take artsy photos with sepia tones, for instance.

Photographers generally do not like having to think about using regular flash photography. The reason is most people cannot stand not knowing what the flash is going to do with the picture. Flash is sudden and a huge burst of light, and it is hard to tell what effect it will have. Adequately monitored however, knowing more about its effect can be attained.

In this day and age, you need to know digital photography basics to digitally improve your photos. This means learning the basics of programs like Photoshop. While you should not totally rely on these programs, you can definitely perfect the shots you actually take. After all, you can only control so much when shooting.

Watch the horizon lines in your photos. You need to ensure that they are completely straight in order for your shot to appear straight. If they are crooked or slanted, it will look like the subject matter crooked. That makes you look incapable of a straight shot, so take the time to make sure your horizons are straight.

Clearly, talent is helpful when aspiring to become a great photographer, but time, patience and careful study will also produce excellent results. There is more to photography than simply pointing and clicking a cheap camera. It is about capturing the art already present in the world around you and forever immortalizing it.




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