Have you ever desired to improve your photo taking skill, yet did not know where to to start? Well, what if I told you that in just a few minutes, you could be using some fantastic digital photography tricks that will take your photos from okay to incredible!
If you are like me, you have thrown away a lot of time and sometimes a lot of money taking photos, that are, well, not that impressive. After countless years (too many to bring up), I finally decided to do something about it. I read a couple of books, magazines and took some classes to improve my digital photography. What I learned is that there are numerous digital photography tricks that are so simple, I picked them up in nothing flat and created amazing results.
I won't guarantee that you will be a professional from these digital photography tricks, but you will notice improvement from the very first photograph.
1. Fill the frame: One of the simplest digital photography tricks to understand, but harder to do. When you take a photo, how small is your subject in the frame? When I look at photographs that I snapped years ago, the subject constantly seemed to be taking up very little of the frame. Well, by filling the frame, you focus on the principal object. Also, on the occasion that the principal object takes up most or all of the frame, you eliminate any unattractive objects that otherwise might have made their way into the picture (i.e. the laundry, trash, signs, other people, the neighbors cat...). The criteria that I now put to work is if you imagine you are close enough, your not. If you imagine you are too close, then take the photo, you are the perfect distance away.
2. Would you repeat that?: One more easy digital photography trick is repetition. Repeating textures, colors or items create fantastic photos! Nature is the master at repetition; leaves on trees, trees in a forest, cloud patterns. Another study that manufactures excellent photos is to find a pattern and then locate an object that violates the orderliness, like a box full of red apples with one yellow one. The unpaired apple draws the viewer's eye into the photograph and also constructs a counterpoint.
3. One of the digital photography tricks used a lot is reflection: The earth is awash of reflective objects and faces; water, glass, chrome and mirrors to denote just a few. They alter our orderly perception by bending the true perception. If you take a photo of the reflection of an object instead of the original, it will create a deeper sense of illusion to viewers looking at your photograph.
4. The last but not the least of the digital photography tricks is to compose a frame within a frame. I am not saying a picture frame, I am speaking about generating a frame encompassing your subject with objects. One illustration would be to position yourself on one side of a door frame and your subject is on the other side. Snap the picture with the door frame surrounding the edge of the picture. It pulls the viewers eye to the focal point of the frame and to your subject matter. It can also create more depth in the picture.
This is a small sample of some of the easy techniques that professional photographers utilize to acquire those terrific pictures in books, magazines and on the web. My desire is that you will apply these digital photography tricks to improve your picture taking abilities. Happy shooting and say cheese (make mine Swiss) - 15437
If you are like me, you have thrown away a lot of time and sometimes a lot of money taking photos, that are, well, not that impressive. After countless years (too many to bring up), I finally decided to do something about it. I read a couple of books, magazines and took some classes to improve my digital photography. What I learned is that there are numerous digital photography tricks that are so simple, I picked them up in nothing flat and created amazing results.
I won't guarantee that you will be a professional from these digital photography tricks, but you will notice improvement from the very first photograph.
1. Fill the frame: One of the simplest digital photography tricks to understand, but harder to do. When you take a photo, how small is your subject in the frame? When I look at photographs that I snapped years ago, the subject constantly seemed to be taking up very little of the frame. Well, by filling the frame, you focus on the principal object. Also, on the occasion that the principal object takes up most or all of the frame, you eliminate any unattractive objects that otherwise might have made their way into the picture (i.e. the laundry, trash, signs, other people, the neighbors cat...). The criteria that I now put to work is if you imagine you are close enough, your not. If you imagine you are too close, then take the photo, you are the perfect distance away.
2. Would you repeat that?: One more easy digital photography trick is repetition. Repeating textures, colors or items create fantastic photos! Nature is the master at repetition; leaves on trees, trees in a forest, cloud patterns. Another study that manufactures excellent photos is to find a pattern and then locate an object that violates the orderliness, like a box full of red apples with one yellow one. The unpaired apple draws the viewer's eye into the photograph and also constructs a counterpoint.
3. One of the digital photography tricks used a lot is reflection: The earth is awash of reflective objects and faces; water, glass, chrome and mirrors to denote just a few. They alter our orderly perception by bending the true perception. If you take a photo of the reflection of an object instead of the original, it will create a deeper sense of illusion to viewers looking at your photograph.
4. The last but not the least of the digital photography tricks is to compose a frame within a frame. I am not saying a picture frame, I am speaking about generating a frame encompassing your subject with objects. One illustration would be to position yourself on one side of a door frame and your subject is on the other side. Snap the picture with the door frame surrounding the edge of the picture. It pulls the viewers eye to the focal point of the frame and to your subject matter. It can also create more depth in the picture.
This is a small sample of some of the easy techniques that professional photographers utilize to acquire those terrific pictures in books, magazines and on the web. My desire is that you will apply these digital photography tricks to improve your picture taking abilities. Happy shooting and say cheese (make mine Swiss) - 15437
About the Author:
Russell Roberds is an amateur photographer living in Georgia. He has been snapping photographs for over thirty years. He has used a multitude of cameras from film to digital, but his preferred is the Nikon D60. Click here digital photography tricks for more information and more tricks to refine your photography technique.
