tips to help you take better pictures!

2
Tips To Help You Take Better Pictures! Effective photography goes far beyond simple things like lighting levels. It is truly an art form. It has just as many skills and techniques to learn as any other art form. It takes a special kind of person with a good eye that can see the beauty in things around them. Read the following tips to help improve your photographs. Using digital software, photos can be altered to look like watercolors, pencil sketches and much more. There are various image editing software for digital photos, but the program Adobe Photoshop, is pretty much the industry standard. Providing your photos with those artistic conversions is simply a matter of opening the "filter" menu and picking the effect you find most appealing. Think about the things you want seen in your picture. Imagine a window through which you see only a selected portion of the subject. Do not show that much. To move beyond the small focus of just one picture, try taking a series of photos on the same subject. This is better than one overly general photo. Many people believe sunny days to be ideal for shooting photos, but the truth is that shooting pictures in bright sunshine is the best way to ruin every shot taken. Direct sunlight not only causes glare and unpleasant shadows, but it also creates irregular highlights and makes your subjects squint if they facing the sun. If possible, always choose early morning or late evening light when shooting outdoors. When choosing which of your photos to show others, choose the ones of which you are the most proud. Resist the check this video urge to show people every photo, especially multiple shots of the same person or subject. Your audience does not get as much out of each picture, and can become quickly bored from seeing the same photo subject matter over and over. Look for ways to highlight different facets of your photographs as you inject each image with a fresh take. Experiment with the white balance feature manually. When you are taking photos inside, many times your pictures will end up looking a little yellow from the light bulbs. Instead of taking the time to relight the entire room, adjust white balance and use your camera to create a whole new atmosphere. Implementing this feature will create a look of professionalism in the images you produce. Here is a handy photo tip! Shutter speeds can greatly improve your experience with photography. Your camera has settings labeled A,M,P, and S. P is for program mode. This setting has your camera determine your shutter and aperture speeds automatically. If you are not sure what you will shoot, use the "P" setting.

Upload: marianamurray60

Post on 15-Aug-2015

9 views

Category:

Documents


5 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Tips To Help You Take Better Pictures!

Tips To Help You Take Better Pictures!

Effective photography goes far beyond simple things like lighting levels. It is truly an art form. It hasjust as many skills and techniques to learn as any other art form. It takes a special kind of personwith a good eye that can see the beauty in things around them. Read the following tips to helpimprove your photographs.

Using digital software, photos can be altered to look like watercolors, pencil sketches and muchmore. There are various image editing software for digital photos, but the program AdobePhotoshop, is pretty much the industry standard. Providing your photos with those artisticconversions is simply a matter of opening the "filter" menu and picking the effect you find mostappealing.

Think about the things you want seen in your picture. Imagine a window through which you see onlya selected portion of the subject. Do not show that much. To move beyond the small focus of just onepicture, try taking a series of photos on the same subject. This is better than one overly generalphoto.

Many people believe sunny days to be ideal for shooting photos, but the truth is that shootingpictures in bright sunshine is the best way to ruin every shot taken. Direct sunlight not only causesglare and unpleasant shadows, but it also creates irregular highlights and makes your subjectssquint if they facing the sun. If possible, always choose early morning or late evening light whenshooting outdoors.

When choosing which of your photos to show others, choose the ones of which you are the mostproud. Resist the check this video urge to show people every photo, especially multiple shots of thesame person or subject. Your audience does not get as much out of each picture, and can becomequickly bored from seeing the same photo subject matter over and over. Look for ways to highlightdifferent facets of your photographs as you inject each image with a fresh take.

Experiment with the white balance featuremanually. When you are taking photos inside,many times your pictures will end up looking alittle yellow from the light bulbs. Instead oftaking the time to relight the entire room, adjustwhite balance and use your camera to create awhole new atmosphere. Implementing thisfeature will create a look of professionalism inthe images you produce.

Here is a handy photo tip! Shutter speeds cangreatly improve your experience withphotography. Your camera has settings labeledA,M,P, and S. P is for program mode. This settinghas your camera determine your shutter andaperture speeds automatically. If you are notsure what you will shoot, use the "P" setting.

Page 2: Tips To Help You Take Better Pictures!

Take pictures when you leave when traveling. You will have tons of photo opportunities while onvacation, but don't forget about your travel time as a source of good trip pictures as well. Picturescan memorialize the journey itself/ You can, for example, find fascinating photography subjects at anairport.

As you can see, photography is much more complicated than most people give it credit for. You willsignificantly increase the visual appeal of your photos.