9/04/2012

Ten Great Ideas For Improving Your Photography Skills

By Mandy Faye


Taking an excellent photo isn't as tricky as you may feel. It is not contingent on using a high priced camera, or accumulating years of professional experience. All you simply need is to learn the following ten strategies.

Tip 1 - Study Your Manual - This is a must first step for enhancing your photography expertise. Get to know your camera. In case your camera has some special features such as a particular night time mode, study the manual and follow their directions on how you can 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 can be a vital aspect to photography. Obtain an understanding of forms and shapes composition within your images. Do not see an object, look at its shape, form and its composition and try out various angles to photograph it from. Form and shapes are all around us in our daily life. Study up as numerous books on them as you possibly can. It's going to amaze you as soon as you recognize 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 utilize Contrasts With Colors - Some of the most effective photographs have shades of white, gray and black. You'll be able to take excellent shots with just one color on your subject, however the contrasts in between colors within a shot is what makes it an awesome photo.

Tip 6 - Motion In Your Photos - Never have motion in your photos if you are photographing a still object. If there is something moving while you are trying to photograph a stationery object, your photo won't turn out anywhere near as well. Also never put a horizon line in the center of your frame. It should be on the lower or upper third of the picture.

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 - When you are taking an action shot using slow shutter speed, panthe object. Follow the object as it moves,, from start out to finish. If you take multiple shots, one of these shots will likely be a winner. You have greater success of finding an excellent shot in the event you take far more than one photo.

Tip 9 - Continuous Shots - To pan like I suggested above you will need a camera that does continuous shots and doesn't need to stop and process after every shot.

Tip 10 - How you can Take Amazing Night Time Photos - Night time shots can be spectacular, just about magical if the photographer knows what he or she is doing. If not, the pictures will look horrible. In a night time environment which usually lack of sufficient lighting, even a great camera can turn out undesirable photos when the photographer does not know what he or she is getting into.

Have fun photo shooting!




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