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Top 5 Tips For Taking Better Photographs With A Digital Camera |
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Lee Griffin |
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Top 5 Tips For Taking Better Photographs With A Digital Camera
Lee Griffin
Taking pictures with a digital camera is a lot of fun, and it's especially fun to create memories you can go back and enjoy later. With these tips, your photography skills will improve so you can enjoy them even more.
1. Environmental light is your friend.
Try to avoid using the flash if you can. Flashes can be unkind to our faces, making us look pale in the resulting photographs. Usually you should be able to find enough natural light in the environment to take the picture without the flash.
2. Don't forget about the background.
Make sure there isn't anything in the background of your picture that will seem out of place when you look at it later. Something like a portable toilet or a garbage truck in the background might ruin an otherwise great picture. Take a step or two to one side or the other to adjust where you're aiming and avoid awkward background artifacts.
3. Your subject shouldn't be in the center of the frame.
It's always good to place the subject a little off-center in the frame. In fact, there's something called The Rule of Thirds that gives us some pretty good guidelines for how to pull this off. Imagine a tic-tac-toe criss-cross drawn on the frame. Now align the focal point(s) of the picture with one or more of the intersections formed by the imaginary lines. This will result in a much more interesting picture.
4. Use interesting angles.
Trying a new and creative angle will sometimes make a big difference in the composition of your shot. See what happens if you stand on top of a raise surface and point down at your subject. Try taking a picture from the side when they're not paying attention. Just get creative and have fun, you never know what you'll end up with.
5. Use the whole frame for your subject.
Get close enough to what you're aiming at to fill the entire frame with your subject. This will leave no doubt as to what the focus of the picture is when you look at it in the future.
Follow these tips, and the next time you walk down memory lane with your digital photographs, you'll enjoy what you were trying to capture in the first place.
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