The 5 Top Tips That Guarantee Better Pictures
If you want to shoot better pictures, follow these five simple tips.
Tip 1. Quality over quantity
A famous photographer once said he wasn't much good but after his first 1000 rolls of film, he just got lucky. Today it costs nothing to take pictures on digital, in many ways this is great but it has a flip side. Because there is no cost associated people skip what its commonly know as the pre visualization stage.
If you only take 36 pictures on an outing, you will have to be more selective. This discipline will make you visualise in your head, you will know what you are going to shoot, and not just shoot blindly. Just watch for the leap in quality of the composition of your pictures.
Tip 2. Shoot in RAW File Format
If you have a camera that is capable of shooting in raw format: do it. Shooting in jpeg will result in images that have limited potential in post production. Shooting uncompressed will allow you to use a program such as Aperture and Light room to their full potential and achieve interesting results in post-production.
Tip 3: Change The Angle and Viewpoint
New photographers don't tend to play with viewpoint and angles. if you always shoot from norma head height, how are you going to achieve something new and unusual?
If you really want to take great pictures you need to show the viewer something exciting; explore the world of angles.
Tip 4 Understand Your Lenses
Every lens length or focal length affects the perspective of your image. There are three different types of lenses: long ones, short ones and standard. Long lenses are referred to as telephoto lenses, short lenses are referred to as wide angle lenses. A lens that is neither is referred to as a standard lens.
When the focal length is the same as the diagonal dimension of the film or sensor plane it a standard lens. So full frame or 35mm means a standard lens length of 50mm, a shorter lens, for example 35mm, will be a wide angle lens and anything longer for example 90mm is a long lens or telephoto.
You get a wider angle of view with a wide angle lens together with exaggerated distances within the image which increases perspective.
Long lenses allow you photograph distant subjects providing a narrow but magnified field of view, effectively doing the opposite to a wide lens, that is compressing perspective within an image
Your choice of focal length also affects the distance two objects within an image can be in focus; the longer the lens the shorter your distance of focus.
If you are going to shoot a portrait you would most likely choose a long lens, for a landscape a shorter lens would be more appropriate.
Tip 5: Your Critics Can Improve Your Pictures
The images you've taken are just that - images. Learn to use the feedback you receive from your family, friends and people online to improve the images you're yet to take. Try not to get defensive and be open minded, everyone with a pair of eyes has a valid opinion and you'll gain hugely from other people's feedback.
Now get out your camera and go and take some pictures.
by: Amanda Prout
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