Selasa, 12 Juni 2012

Photography Tips Made Simple And Easy To Understand

By Allison Maggie Sanchez


There are many advantages to choosing photography as a hobby. Since photography is an art that helps you capture moments in time, it helps turn it into something meaningful to you. Photography can capture innocence or youth, and you can also see the vitality of former years of those that are older. The following article will give you a whole new outlook on photography. Continue reading for tips on how to preserve special memories in each of your photos in such a way that they come back to life every time you look at them.

Share your very best and most interesting shots. Your memory card likely holds mass quantities of photos, but you will be better served by a library of only your best work.

Always choose your best photos to show. It is always beneficial to take multiple shots with various settings, but you do not have to show them all off, only the best ones should be shown. You do not want to show every picture, or too many with the same subject. It might bore people if you keep showing the same photo multiple times. Keep it fresh, and show different aspects of your photography.

If you are going to take pictures of a person, always hold your camera at their eye level. This gives your photos that up-close-and-personal atmosphere and draws the viewer's eye to the people in the photo. If you are taking some pictures of kids, crouch down to where they are.

You will want to use filters which are extensions that you put onto your camera lenses. They attach directly to the lens and can be used for a variety of reasons. A UV filter is the most common type you'll find in photography. This will prevent direct sunlight from damaging your lens. It also acts like a shield to keep your lens from being damaged if you accidently drop your camera.

While many believe that wearing white in a photograph make them look good, it is actually a bad idea. If you are using the auto focus feature on your camera, it will record many varying colors and shading that it picks up through the lens. When wearing white, the clothing often gets washed out in photos.

To get more from your shots, move closer while snapping your shots until the object fills the frame. The viewer will be able to see details better, and sometimes it is those details that make the photo more interesting.

Crop pictures to make them better. Sometimes a picture is great, except there could be an unattractive element in the background, like a sock. On some other pictures you may see that you didn't line everything up correctly. You can fix those problems easily by cropping the image later.

Manually set the white balance. Most cameras automatically choose a white balance for your photos, but for true control of your image, set this manually. If you change the white balance, you can remove yellow tints that are caused by certain light bulbs or change the mood.

If you are shooting photographs in a florescent light setting, make sure that you adjust your camera's white balance settings appropriately. Blue and green light is usually given off by fluorescent lights, so subjects of your photos might take a tone cooler than you intended, unless you compensate with the red tones.

Expanding your photographic talents is not too hard, but it's not effortless either. Most of all, you have to be willing to invest the time to learn about and practice new techniques. Photography presents a lot of questions to answer, questions that don't necessarily have one right answer. Hopefully, the tips you've just seen will guide you towards answering those questions for yourself.




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