Photography : Tips For The Non-Professionals

Photography For Fun

When you are a new photographer there is a chance that you can improve the quality of your photography. for some folks,this means refining their technique for other it may mean learning some of the technical aspect of their camera equipment. in other cases,it may mean simply using a higher quality of camera gear, such as professional grade lenses or ones with special capabilities. for those people we will give some easy ideas of how you can creat beautiful and creative picture during year next holiday. lets take a look some basic method and some more advance technique to creat beautiful image .

Get close

it sound as easy as it is. every camera especially if you use different lenses, has different distances where you can still get sharp picture. just try it out. begin by standing farther away from your subject and try going closer until you cannot get the camera to focus any more. if you have a zoom lens try zooming in as much as possible  and try some technique

UNFOCUSED/BLURRY

It is another easy and very beautiful method especially at night when you have colour light around you. on a DSLR you just have to set your lens to manual and unfocused. on your point and shoot camera you fan focus on a subject near you and then while still holding your finger on the release button , move to the scene you want and take the picture.

Time when the sunshine. get your DSLR to manual mode and set your shutter speed to about 1/250 to 1/320 second or even higher depending on how fast your subject is moving. if you want your background to be blurry, set your aperture to the lowest setting your lens can go but if you want your picture to be sharper,then set your aperture to a higher setting.

ZOOM EFFECT

this might be one of the trickiest method. in order to take a picture with this effect you will need to change your shutter speed to a longer exposure . you should put your camera on a tripod and then, just as you hit the release button, zoom in or out with your dslr.

Rule of Thirds

Every creative person knows that composition is important and the rule of third is a larger part of it. the rule of thirds is about dividing an image into third horizontally and vertically, producing nine boxes.


SHOOT IN RAW MODE

camera raw will allow you to get the most out of your images. many shooters still shoot in jpeg ,mostly because this allow them to see their shots in post or because it allow them to avoid post-pro-duction editing all together .


TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AUTO-FOCUS 

The power of auto focus has come a long way as camera have evolvef. the human eye is amazing but something letting the camera assist can produce stunning result. when shooting human or statues depicted as hummans, setting the camera auto focus to facial detection can allow you to get great shots in the moment and focus purely on your composition and exposure.