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Taking a great picture is not as tough as you may believe. You do not need an expensive camera or years of expertise, you just basically should know ten ideas.
Tip 1 - Study Your Manual - This should be a must for improving your photography skills. Get to know your camera. If your camera has a special night time mode, read the manual and follow their instructions on how to use it properly.
Tip 2 - Use Every Frame Space Available - Do not be afraid to utilize each of the space within your photo. If you need to take photo of an object, it really is ok for it to take up the entire shot with most of the space. This can avoid distractions out of the shot.
Tip 3 - Study Forms and Shapes - This is a vital aspect to photography. Gain an understanding of forms and shapes composition in your photos. Don't see an object, see its shape and its composition and find the best angle to photograph it from. Form and shapes are all around us in our world. Read up as many books on them as possible. It will amaze you once you understand the beauty of forms and shapes composition.
Tip 4 - Get Closer For your Subject - This is one error most photographers make, not having close sufficient to their target. Get up and personal and close the distance gap. Normally, you are able to reshape and resize a good shot but you cannot continue to blowup a distant object without sacrificing the good quality.
Tip 5 - Learn To Use Contrasts Among Colors - Some of the best photos have shades of white, gray and black. You can take great shots with just one color on your subject, but the contrasts between colors in a shot is what makes it a great 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 is often tricky due to shutter lags. What this indicates is, whenever you press the button to take the photo, it can be a time delay as much as a second for the shutter to be activated. By that time what you had been photographing would have moved or changed somehow. This means it's important to compensate for shutter lag by predicting your subject's next move and then take the photo just before it takes that action. High-priced digital cameras don't have this trouble.
Tip 8 - Panning - For anyone who is taking an action shot using slower shutter speed, use panning for special effect. Follow the object by moving (panning) the camera from start to finish. One of those shots will likely turned out to be spectacular. You have great chance of getting a good shot if you take multiple photos.
Tip 9 - Continuous Shots - To pan as suggested above, you will want a camera that is capable of shooting continuously without stopping after every shot.
Tip 10 - How To Take Spectacular Night Time Pictures - Night time pictures can be spectacular, almost magical if done correctly. If not they can look horrible. Without enough lighting, even a good camera can turn out really bad pictures if the photographer is not in tuned with light environment he or she is in.
Have fun photo taking!
Tip 1 - Study Your Manual - This should be a must for improving your photography skills. Get to know your camera. If your camera has a special night time mode, read the manual and follow their instructions on how to use it properly.
Tip 2 - Use Every Frame Space Available - Do not be afraid to utilize each of the space within your photo. If you need to take photo of an object, it really is ok for it to take up the entire shot with most of the space. This can avoid distractions out of the shot.
Tip 3 - Study Forms and Shapes - This is a vital aspect to photography. Gain an understanding of forms and shapes composition in your photos. Don't see an object, see its shape and its composition and find the best angle to photograph it from. Form and shapes are all around us in our world. Read up as many books on them as possible. It will amaze you once you understand the beauty of forms and shapes composition.
Tip 4 - Get Closer For your Subject - This is one error most photographers make, not having close sufficient to their target. Get up and personal and close the distance gap. Normally, you are able to reshape and resize a good shot but you cannot continue to blowup a distant object without sacrificing the good quality.
Tip 5 - Learn To Use Contrasts Among Colors - Some of the best photos have shades of white, gray and black. You can take great shots with just one color on your subject, but the contrasts between colors in a shot is what makes it a great 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 is often tricky due to shutter lags. What this indicates is, whenever you press the button to take the photo, it can be a time delay as much as a second for the shutter to be activated. By that time what you had been photographing would have moved or changed somehow. This means it's important to compensate for shutter lag by predicting your subject's next move and then take the photo just before it takes that action. High-priced digital cameras don't have this trouble.
Tip 8 - Panning - For anyone who is taking an action shot using slower shutter speed, use panning for special effect. Follow the object by moving (panning) the camera from start to finish. One of those shots will likely turned out to be spectacular. You have great chance of getting a good shot if you take multiple photos.
Tip 9 - Continuous Shots - To pan as suggested above, you will want a camera that is capable of shooting continuously without stopping after every shot.
Tip 10 - How To Take Spectacular Night Time Pictures - Night time pictures can be spectacular, almost magical if done correctly. If not they can look horrible. Without enough lighting, even a good camera can turn out really bad pictures if the photographer is not in tuned with light environment he or she is in.
Have fun photo taking!
