Master Your Camera
Today's sophisticated digital cameras enable anyone to take good, and sometimes great, photographs by simply using one of the automatic shooting modes and pressing the shutter release. However, most digital cameras offer many additional features that give serious photographers considerable creative control over how photos are taken and ensure that a higher percentage of photos are taken as you want them. One major advantage of most digital cameras is that you can review the image and camera enables you to check that you have composed the photo as you like and that the camera settings were set as you expected. Some ...
Know Why You Are Taking Photos
Should you shoot horizontally or vertically? If you have a choice of digital cameras, which one should you use? What camera settings will you use? Will your photographs be framed or displayed on a Web page? Are you going to display your photographs in a series, or should they be shot in a particular style? Are you shooting to get backgrounds or objects to include in another photograph? Do you plan to digitally edit your photographs with an image editor such as Adobe Photoshop after you take them? Your answers to these questions and others like them will have a substantial ...
Picking Good Photo Opportunities
Unless you have specific reasons to shoot particular scenes or subjects, the best photo opportunities for you are those things that you enjoy. If you enjoy gardening and appreciate the thousands of different variations of iris, shoot irises. Or if you are a birdwatcher and find pleasure in watching wildlife, choose places where you can find birds and other wildlife in settings that make great photographs. When planning a trip, give yourself plenty of time to stay and take photographs. Allow yourself some time for bad weather or other shooting conditions that prevent you from photographing. You can spend an entire ...
Exposure Tactics
Discovering EXPOSURE MODES
Discover different EXPOSURE MODES Most digital cameras offer a variety of exposure...
UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE
Exposure is the correct combination of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO speed to...
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Control reflection with a POLARIZER
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Shoot color for DRAMATIC PHOTOS
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Experiment to create UNIQUE PHOTOS
Experiment to create UNIQUE PHOTOS Break all the photography rules and guidelines that you know. Shoot with a slow shutter speed without a tripod. Zoom or pan your lens with the shutter open while shooting with a slow shutter speed. Intentionally overexpose and underexpose, shoot in high-contrast light, shoot in low light, shoot in the rain or a snow... [Read more of this review]
Shoot PATTERNS AND SHAPES
As a photographer, you can choose from many elements to draw attention to your photographs. Patterns and shapes can often become the strongest elements in a photograph, and you can find them everywhere after you develop a skill for noticing them and capturing them with your camera. Our minds are always working to make sense of what our eyes see by looking... [Read more of this review]
SEASONS CHANGE
SEASONS CHANGE You can usually get out-of-the-ordinary photos by shooting when the seasons change. In early spring, you can find new buds that can be fascinating to watch as they open. Spring can also bring a nice contrast between the dark browns of winter plants and the green colors of the new spring plants. Undoubtedly, the rich bold colors of fall... [Read more of this review]
Shoot photos with a “WOW!” FACTOR
Shoot photos with a “WOW!” FACTOR No matter what subjects you like to shoot, there are times where you can capture a photo with a “Wow!” factor. If you shoot sports photos, it may be a photo of two soccer players up in the air heading a ball at the same time, showing the intensity of the play with sweat flying off their faces... [Read more of this review]
Shoot photos for a PANORAMA
Shoot photos for a PANORAMA As long as photographs have been taken, it has always been a challenge for photographers to capture the beauty found in wide-sweeping scenes. A wide-angle lens can capture more of a scene than a shorter focal length lens, but wide-angle lenses tend to add unwanted distortion to the photos, and they still do not capture as... [Read more of this review]
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