Tuesday, June 5, 2012

20 Quick Photography Tips

Quick Photography Tips
Here are 20 quick photography tips for you to add information and your photography skills, I'm sure some have already been done, but hopefully a few other new information.

1. To practice your panning skills, shoot objects are moving at normal speed (people ride motorcycles for example), use the shutter priority mode and set shutter speed up to 1/30 second, slower is better. Consider your background!

2. For macro shooting (super close range), activate the feature Live View digital camera to make it more easy to check depth of field and focus.

3. CPL Filter (polarization) is very useful to eliminate the reflection of sunlight on the water and glass, and also serves to improve the color of the sky. Do you ever wear sunglasses with a polariser?

4. When photographing babies or children, make sure you focus on the eyes. Nothing can beat the beauty of the eyes of children.

5. Megapixels are not the most important features of a camera, sensor size is the most important features.

6. For portait photo (face) out of the room, try when the weather is cloudy. If not, look for areas that do not dim and direct sunlight. Sunlight makes harsh shadows on faces.
7. When you take pictures in low light conditions and distress using autofocus, switch to manual focus. Getting on camera autofocus feature is usually long enough to find a focal point in dim conditions.

8. For the silhouette images, make sure you turn off the flash and use the sunset mode (for pocket cameras), SLR to use the manual mode and measure exposure in bright areas behind the object.

9. Download the pdf version of the manual for your camera, so you easily perform a quick search for the word you want to know than have to flip through pages of paper.

10. Before shooting, check your camera settings, do not let you use the wrong setting (landscape shooting with ISO 1000 for example). According to the pro photographer, a good sequence is the following checks: check White Balance - Highlight activate warning - check the ISO setting - check the size of your image resolution.

11. Format the memory card in the camera only, do not format the memory card on the computer. In addition to much faster and easier also much safer if you do it on camera.

12. If you have excess capacity of hard disks in computers and likes to do photo editing, use the RAW format when taking pictures, if not just use JPG.

13. If you really like landscape photography, photograph in the following hours: from 5 pm to 8 am, and from 4 to 7 pm.

14. When taking pictures, look at the brightest area that comes into your viewfinder. If the light is too conspicuous than other areas, change the shooting angle.

15. For HDR shooting, use auto bracket mode. One more: for a great landscape HDR image, wait until a little cloudy, and then start shooting.

16. If you are buying a used lens or camera used, make sure you conduct a transaction with the seller directly meet. You must examine the goods, hold and try it out.

17. To the extent possible, use the lowest ISO setting possible. Although the noise reduction can reduce the noise generated by high ISO, but will reduce overall image detail.

18. If the color makes your photo is too "busy" and crowded, change your photos into black and white photo.

19. To produce a good black and white photo, note the contrast in your photo. The more contrast (dark and light areas as diverse), the better the black and white photos.

20. Bring a camera wherever you go, the quickest way of improving your photographic skills is to increase the hours of flying, there is no better.

Hopefully these 20 quick
photography tips can help you to learn the basics of photography.

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