10/11/2012

Techniques And Strategies For Taking Professional Pictures

By Jessie Francese


Since you already have a concept on the way to get started with taking professional pictures, it's definitely more enjoyable and exciting when you know some techniques and tricks on how to take spectacular digital shots that will be worth keeping or sharing. Wouldn't it be great when photos of your holiday and rare special moments are taken creatively and professionally?

Let's discuss 5 ways to achieve it:

1. Turn off the flash

Among the best developments in present-day photography is definitely the development of digital cameras with automatic settings and presets which let you take photos in an instant. But one of the things that require a user's decision is usually to turn the flash off. Auto flash settings may turn on despite having sufficient lighting. The challenge sets in as the use of flash often ruins photo quality. So, if you would like your subjects to be professionally photographed, simply set the perfect exposure settings and manually turn off the flash since there is a tendency that it switches on automatically.

2. Select the vertical view

Handy or pocket-sized digital camera models for example, the Point and Shoot type are built to be held horizontally. People also are likely to hold a camera that way because it's quicker to hold it in a very steady manner. But it's actually not the only route to hold it. There might be times when your subject doesn't fit into the frame and you really need to hold it vertically. Holding it vertically while getting a shot of your subject may surprise you with professional-looking photos.

3. Don't neglect the rule of thirds

The rule of thirds certainly is the general guideline in photography. You can notice it in nearly all professional art pieces. The idea here is to divide the photo into thirds in three equal rows and three equal vertical columns. Placing the points of interest right at the intersection of the lines more often than not creates presentable results.

4. Try to be close to your subject

Oftentimes, the easy way to identify a great photographer is the way he calculates his distance from his subject. Good photographers stand close enough to their subject to get a better snapshot. If normally you're taking snapshots of people, you might need to go nearer to them to capture the true, vivid smiles on their faces. This is among the finest features of DSLR's as this type of camera allows capturing close-up photos of persons or moving objects using the magical standard zoom lens without moving the digital camera.

5. Make use of the telephoto lens

Using wide-angle lens alone to take a close-up photo may end up with pictures looking distorted. To solve this matter, start using a telephoto lens to shoot a zoomed-in picture of your subject and take professional pictures with no wide-angle distortion.




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