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Tips For Digital Photography | By Surinder Sharma

It is easy to take good pictures but to experience the best in digital photography, here are a few tips and ideas that can make your work look not just good but excellent.

1. Focus on what kind of photography interests you. Choose a topic that you understand fully and something that is of curiosity to you. You must have sound knowledge about the subject you want to click.

2. Find a good digital camera that has all the features and characteristics required for your kind of photography. You must understand the basic needs the camera must have therefore invest into a good quality camera that assures great pictures. For example, in case you decide to take pictures for the print media, the requirement should be of a high quality camera and if it is web photography you are looking at, a normal digital cam should create the magic.

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3. Familiarize with your digital camera by more and more practicing. Step into your backyard and take pictures. Try and focus on the subject and think about how you want to compose the shot. Try taking pictures from different angles and different modes. This experimentation will give you a chance to know your camera and you can then be a pro in using it professionally. You could also upload your pictures on many social websites for photographers to be shared with your contacts.

4. Consider using a tripod for better stability. Pictures taken with the use of tripod come out a lot better than free hand pictures for the simple reason that the camera is steady and you can try various angles with it. The subject can be framed into the shot easily and the balance on the tripod makes it helpful to click great photos.

5. Lighting plays a very important role in photography. There is a great difference in photos taken outdoors and indoors. Thus, you must know how to fix the lighting. Try and learn about artificial lighting and adequate brightness needed for the genuine color of the photograph. Flash is there in most cameras to support the brightness, however, in some cases it might not be sufficient. Therefore you must know how to play with false lights and get the right image.

7. Once you get expertise in the photography than it is the time to move on the business part. It is advisable to have a custom design portfolio website. As it will be your online entity and it will help you to showcase your work as well as getting future assignment.

Taking these simple steps into consideration, you can perk up your hobby of digital photography. Your work of taking brilliant pictures will be admired among friends, family and photographers and who knows you might get a chance to pursue your favourite past time as a profession.

Author is a mature wild life photographer and has vast experience in digital marketing expertise. Currently he is associated with Pixpa – an custom design portfolio website solution provider which provide portfolio website for photographers, artists and designers.

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Candid Photography and Good Manners | By Lance Carr

This doesn’t really apply of course if you’re taking shots of inanimate objects. A tree is not likely to get offended if you shoot it at a moment when its branches look forlorn and sad – but a person might.

For example, you’re prowling the backstreets of some Third World city, or even your own, trying to capture a mood of desolation or estrangement – don’t ask me why, but people like shooting this kind of thing – and you get an old woman in your viewfinder who has obviously seen better days. Nevertheless, there’s a certain grace in her pose, and a nobility in her expression, so you shoot.

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Later you can zap the pix in Photoshop, give it a good color balance and your friends will admire it. You get that pleasure for your efforts – but what did your model get?

Back when I was first taking photos I caught sight of a one legged man on a crutch hobbling towards me along a city street. It was a striking image, so being a god with a Nikon I brazenly stepped out and took it. The subject got very upset – and I immediately saw his point: who wants to be immortalized looking your worst?

When I returned to the darkroom I threw the negative out and made a vow not to do that again. Should I have asked his permission first? That would not have solved the situation and he most certainly would have said no. The point was, why was I taking that shot in the first place? If I’d thought about it I would have taken a shot from the back and at least spared his feelings.

Sometimes you take a candid snap and the value of the shot is that the person is unaware of your interest. These pictures can be great and the effect would be spoiled by going up and announcing your intention beforehand. However, what you can do is once you’ve got your shot, approach the subject, let them know you’d like to take a photo and do the best job you can of taking a flattering picture of the person. They may never see it, but here, as in many things – it’s the thought that counts.

Another variation, especially if you’re in that same Third World country where the locals have probably been photographed every which way by thousands of tourists, is to carry some small denomination notes or coins in your pocket, and politely offer payment for the modeling work. This is usually appreciated and it’s good for your conscience.

Some other examples: one time I did my own personal photo essay on a school. It wasn’t practical to offer every student and teacher a print but I cut a CD of the best shots and presented it to the principal.

Another time, I shot a dog class and made some small prints of the ten best shots and gave them to the trainer to pass out at the next class.

All this comes under the heading of good manners, and good manners are always appreciated. Furthermore if you want or need to return and re-shoot, you’ll find yourself welcomed not resisted.

Try it.

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Portrait Photography Tips – Shooting Wow Pictures | By Jonnie Blaylock

All budding photographers, as well as those who’ve been shooting for awhile, are all looking for the same thing. They want to shooting stunning photographs that capture the “wow” factor. It is not an easy thing to do, since beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, it is not impossible and rather than following rules, sometimes it is necessary to break them. Be random and boldly follow your instincts to find that special picture that makes everyone stop and take notice.

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1. Change the Perspective - Nearly all portraits are taken with the camera at eye level. Change the perspective by changing the angle from which you’re shooting. Get up high over your subject for one effect. From that vantage you may see an even more interesting aspect. Experiment with your composition.

2. Play with the Eyes - Eye contact or the direction in which the eyes are gazing heavily affects the effect of the portrait. Looking directly into the camera isn’t always the most interesting way to shoot someone. It may be more intriguing to have the subject look off to the side, drawing those who look at the shot to wonder what’s there, off camera, unseen. But be careful how you do this, because drawing the viewer’s eyes to the side also takes their eyes off your subject.

3. Staying Focused within the Frame - In other words, have your subject holding an object, like a woman holding a baby, or a child holding a toy keeps the viewers eyes focused inside the frame and on the subjects. It creates a second point of interest and helps to create a story within the frame with the subject.

4. Composition Rules - Composition rules as listed in portrait photography tips, are made to be followed and broken. The rules are great to know and to use, but stretching them, or pushing to the outer limits makes for more interesting portrait art. Learn the rules, get comfortable using them, then learn to break them in order to achieve a more eye catching result.

5. Experiment with Lighting - The possibilities are endless with lighting. You are hindered only by your imagination and ability to be creative. There is no good and bad. So go ahead and play with the lighting. You might surprise yourself. Sidelight, back-light, silhouette, the possibilities are infinite.

6. Make Subject Move - Interesting portraits happen when you take the subject out of his or her comfort zone. Make them move. Put them in clothing or in a setting where you wouldn’t ordinarily find them. Surround them with stuff that says who they are, but make them react differently to it. For instance, put them in business attire in an office, but have them jump up and down or read a book upside down. Again, be creative.

7. Don’t Stage the Photo - Shooting candid shots are better than posing the subject. People, and kids in particular tend to tense up and hide rather than reveal their personality when the picture is staged and they are required to pose. Photograph your subjects while they work or kids while they play. Try to catch them reacting naturally to their environment.

8. Using Props - Enhance your shot by creating another point of interest with a prop. For example, if you’re shooting a doctor, let them be wearing a stethoscope or holding a skull. Be careful not to let the prop dominate the picture, let it be part of the picture telling part of the story.

9. A Part of the Whole - Try focusing on a part of the whole, for instance, instead of shooting the head and shoulders of your subject, take a picture or two of their hands, or their back, or maybe even a shoulder with a special tattoo, keeping the face in shadow. Be dramatic and bold. Sometimes what is left out of the shot is as important as what is left in.

10. Variation on a Theme - Obscuring your subject in order to focus on one particular aspect works well too. In other words, shrouding a woman in a shawl leaving only her eyes visible and looking at the camera. Possibly making the shawl match the eyes of the subject making for a dramatic color statement.

The possibilities for taking creative and dramatic shots are limited only by your ability to think outside the box. Know the rules, know how to work them, then learn how to break them for a more creative effect. Finally, take a series of shots… not just one… shoot often and quick… sometimes, in order to get what you want.

I hope you have found these portrait photography tips useful.

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Digital Camera Lessons – Macro Photography | By Gene Rodman

Now that we are getting a few hints of spring, a few Robin and a Bluebird sightings, I’m keeping my eyes out for crocus and pasque flowers. It means that our world is going to shake off winter and make its mad dash to grow like crazy. Now everyone that has waited to photograph something a little less white knows that these flowers mark the beginning of another year of recording our beautiful Montana world.

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Flowers come in a close third next to our children and pets as something we are drawn to photograph. Anyone who has attempted to get a good picture of a flower knows two things; they are usually quite small and they are very near ground level. The ground level thing is easy to fix if you are willing to get down to their level. If you are not willing to get down and personal then flowers are going to be hard for you. Sure there’s the old shoot-down-on-them-from-above method but that limits your perspective. Camera manufacturers also know we love to take pictures of flowers because nearly all automatic cameras have a little flower icon on a dial somewhere on the camera. By turning the dial to the flower icon we are telling our camera that we are going to photograph something close and small. Mostly it will adjust the lens so we can focus closer than for a normal picture. It probably adjusts the aperture (the camera’s iris) to let in a little more light too. Yes, like our eyes, cameras have an adjustable iris to regulate the amount of light that exposes the film or camera’s sensor. Sometimes you’ll hear the word f-stop interchanged with the word aperture. An f-stop is a precise measure of light. Each full f-stop is twice as much or half as much light depending which direction you turn the dial.

So now we are ready to get down in the dirt and start photographing flowers. The one thing about photography that most people don’t understand is that it is not that easy to get a good shot. Here are a few hints that will make the going a little easier:

1. Do not photograph flowers in direct sunlight. It is way too harsh of a light and contrast will be too great, washing out bright colors and killing shadow detail. Many flower photographers carry a diffusion screen to solve this problem.
2. Photographing flowers on a cloudy or foggy day allows for great color saturation and low contrast. Low contrast, diffused light, allows for more fine detail. One misconception about photography is that colors are muted when the sun is behind the clouds. Colors are still there but the decrease in light makes it appear they are less colorful.
3. Watch out for bright backgrounds or highlights that detract from the flower. To set off the color and shape of the flower a darker background is usually desired. I often use the green foliage of the flower as the background. Shooting a flower with the sky as the background seldom works unless you really know what you are doing because it is brighter than the flower.
4. If one is good then more is better. A basic rule of composition is that an odd number rather than even number of objects is more desirable. Arrange your composition so your eye moves from flower to flower easily. But still remember, one is an odd number too.

Those that are a bit more advanced and have a more adjustable camera with changeable lenses might want to know other tricks. There are several ways to get close to flowers with special lenses and filters. Many zoom lenses have a macro setting allowing for closer focusing, though nothing beats a macro lens. Nikon calls their macro lenses micro lenses. Most allow for close to 1:1 or life size reproduction. A 200mm macro lens allows for a greater working distance from your flower than say a 60mm macro. However a 60mm will have slightly more depth of field than the 200mm even though there’s not much depth of field with macro photography.

One of the first tricks photographers used to get close was to reversing their normal lens on their camera body. They did this by using a reversal ring. The reversal ring has the camera’s mount on one side and a male screw thread on the other allowing the lenses filter thread to be screwed onto the ring. Since the idea of a lens is to gather light and focus it into a smaller area (the film) reversing the lens allows the light (image) to be magnified.

Those of us old photographers have always known that when a lens focuses to a closer object the lens moves away from the camera and the lens gets longer. Many lenses now have internal focus (noted as IF on the lens) and the lens does not get longer as it focuses closer because all the focusing is done internally. To increase close focusing, camera manufacturers make hollow tubes that fit between the camera body and the lens. These extension tubes, usually in three different sizes, allow any lens to focus closer because the lens is further away from the camera body. Another item along this line is the bellows extension. The same principle applies because the bellows is placed between the camera body and the lens except rather than being a fixed size tube the bellows allows the photographer to precisely determine the objects size and magnification during focusing.

Close-up filters are another handy item to include in your camera bag. Like other filters that screw onto the front of your lens these filters, usually also coming in three different magnifications, are like reading glasses for us old folks. They simply magnify what the lens is already seeing. They are less expensive than macro lenses and extension tubes and may work for you.

Now I mentioned earlier that there is not much depth of field the closer you get to an object. Depth of field is basically what’s going to be in focus optically. It is often better to allow as much light as you can into the camera by using a large aperture. There usually isn’t much light to work with in macro photography and you’ll be fighting slow shutter speeds if you close down your aperture for a little more depth of field. Focusing also becomes much more critical the closer you get. Using extension tubes, bellows extension, and close-up filters or a combination of these allow you to get extreme close-ups (larger than life size).

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