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Sharper, Crisper Fabulous Photos

How do you to take the shots you’ve always wanted ?

Crisp, clean and with depth and clarity, like the postcards you see, like the ones in photography magazines. You can learn to look at something in front of you and turn it into an amazing work of art and beautiful photograph that you will be proud to take and even prouder to hang on your wall or show friends. Dramatic skies, majestic landscapes and moody scenes are just waiting for you to capture and its easier than you think to achieve.

Its not difficult to have fabulous photographs once you know how and this can be learned just like you learned how to drive or study and like driving improves with practice.

The best way to get your photos clearer and crisper is to hold the camera steady – obvious you might think but try doing it with your hands held out over a river, stretched out to get the right angle or distance or perspective and you will immediately get camera shudder.

Camera shake happens often when you turn your flash off – preferable for getting the right shadows and light but at soon as you do take the flash off automatic, the shutter opens for longer and there is more chance of camera shake because of the length of time before the shutter closes. Read more »

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More Ideas on Photographing Everyday Things

• Shots above taken with a Nikon digital Camera with multi zoom lens.
• I take practically all my photographs without flash as it gives a better effect and you don’t lose the shadows and you can get a better tonal range.
• Flash distorts and I find it takes away from the shot I want to compose
• Reflections can destroy the soft effect of the light but there are times when flash is essential when the light starts to go.

Once you start looking, you will find photographs everywhere and everyday items and situations will present themselves faster than you can take a picture.

I remember doing Art History and learning about Monet and his obsessiveness with the light and his haystack paintings. This all meant nothing until I went to capture the light on some tropical plants and the whole lesson suddenly jumped into prominence and suddenly I “got it”. Monet must have been going like a train to capture all that light, once you notice it, the light changes almost as you watch.

One of the best learning experiences is to miss out on the best shot because you thought you’d get it on the way home or some other time to find it had change, gone, or the lighting had completely changed. I missed a great shot the other day – I spotted a whole herd of cows all congregated by the gate, all looking the same way, the lighting perfect, the photo almost completely posed for me, reached around for the camera – left at home on the bench !

When you go out to photograph, spend some time looking around you, look up, look down at your feet, walk around some distance away and then walk back. You may notice things that normally you would not have if you just jump out of your car and start clicking and you will be aware of your surroundings  more if you get into the mode first.

Rust is absolutely fantastic, there is such a wide range of colors and shades and there is such diversity.

Mould, cobwebs and slime are also amazing starting points. Assuming you have macro on your camera, go out and see what you can find from just one of these ideas, you will be amazed how fantastic your photos can look with close up pix of some of these. Cobwebs can look amazing stretched across some iron or old decayed wood – even your old fireplace hearth and the scattered ash can come up amazingly well with a bit of editing and have you looked to see how many faces you can spot within your photos when you bring them up larger ?

Kitchen utensils make excellent shots and who would think they would come out so great ? Even everyday things like eggs, strawberries and veggies can take the most amazing shots and make interesting posters for your own walls but did you know that you can get paid to submit photographs to the internet and sell your photos online or use them on sites to design your own goods on online shops. I have done this course myself and it has some amazing idea and tips and techniques as well as practical advice on how to get paid for doing what you enjoy

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Digital Abstract Photo Within Rock

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Hot Phototips for Digital Photography

Photography subjects are all around

We need to change how we use our eyes to ferret out the potential and recognize the great shots. Sometimes we go far afield looking for those amazing photos but very often there are some incredible opportunities right our – own doorstep and we just need to sees them differently.

- One of the best zoom lenses in the world are your own feet:

• Move closer to the subject
• Coming in close will have punch
• Moving further away and neatly framed probably won’t
• Improve your composition by moving around.
• Look for strong lines and dramatic angles

Look for dramatic skies too -

• These can be the main subject instead of just the background
• add a splash of color like a brightly colored flagpole, letterbox, corner of a building to accentuate your shot and add extra interest

Experiment with perspective

• Go for a different point of view
• Look for a different perspective get down on the ground or shoot from higher up – don’t take all your photos standing in the one place
• Getting down on the ground works well for buildings to make the ordinary objects look monolithic

Frame up shots compositionally
by taking them through a doorway, archway or window or frame by elements in nature – between trees, rocks or plants

Shadows

• Use shadows to create interesting photographs
• Make shadows part of the composition
• Use shadows to emphasize your photograph
• Use shadows creatively

Abstract Patterns One of my personal favorites !

Look for abstract patterns to photograph and soon you will start to see them everywhere

• Look for an array of shapes
• Look for repetition
• Look for patterns and lines
• Look for details of the objects rather than seeing the whole

Create abstract photographs from texture, line, form, color.

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Any subject can be a starting point, try, boats, trees, leaves, people, hats, branches, color, water, ripples, take a look at your world and see what you can spot !

This photo below was taken during a felting session after noticing how the wool colors all went together and appeared like an abstract painting.

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