7 Tips to take better images
1. Single out your subject
Don’t just take a picture of what you see. There are likely a lot of distracting elements around your subject that will take away the focus of the image. Try and compose your shots in a way where you only get the things on the image that you actually want. Sometimes you’ll need to move yourself or move the subject around. Try playing with how close you are to the subject.
2. Pay attention to the lighting
Lighting can make or break an image. Always try and shoot with the light hitting your subject from where you stand. You can try and play around with the light coming from an angle for more effects, but don’t shoot with light coming from behind the subject. This will create a silhouette that’s useless, unless that’s what you wanted.
Light can also be bounced back. Try using white/reflective surfaces to bounce light back into the shadows. You can use any surface as a reflector. Pay attention that light will take the color of your reflecting surface.
3. Use daylight indoors
When you are shooting indoors, try an use daylight. Simply place whatever you are shooting close to a windows and on the inside put a white reflectinve surface. The effects will be greate.
Usually indoor lighting isn’t that pleasant, nor is it very bright. Mixing natural light from the windows and indoor lght won’t give a good result as they are of different temperature.
4. Get down
Crouching and lying down will often give you a whole new perspective. Shooting anything from the subjects own height will make the subject more pleasing to watch. It will also give you the opportunity to include more of the foreground in the frame, essentially filling the frame with more interesting things.
5. Get high
Drone shots have become very popular these days because that perspective was usually unreachable for 99% of the places. This has opened up a whole category of photography for many.
Even if you don’t have a drone, try and find high places to shoot down from. It might give you new ideas and interesting shots.
6. Add interest
Sometimes there simply is something missing from an image. Try and place a few rocks or leaves into your image. You might also try to throw leaves into the air for added effect. Also keep a look out for things you could add into your foreground that are already lying around. Maybe It would be better to take your shot a few feet from the side etc. Look around and explore.
7. Edit
While a great shot will look great even right out of the camera editing can take it to a whole other level. Some images will require more editing than others, others might require close to no editing. It’s a all a delicate game of what your image needs and where you want to go with it. Learning good editing techniques is important and shouldn’t be overlooked.
*images are taken from various sources and Pixabay.
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Camera: Pentax K-50
Lenses: DA*50-135 / DA-L 18-55 WR / Cosinon 1.8 50mm
Flash: Yongnuo YN660
Tripod: Zomei Q555
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This post shows how a good advice from a PRO looks like. Very balanced, articulated and perfectly ilustrated. I enjoy to read it. And sure found it usefull. There is never to many reminders on things which are essential and important. Thanks @sulev . Been following u quite a while.
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Resteemed to my followers as well. Let they learn. :)
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The first pic in this post is simply magnificent.
This is utterly great advice! I have been doing photos with me telephone for some time now. I mostly like sunsets, but as you said - I should pay attention to something particular, not what I see. That makes me think next time I'm trying to take a picture of just the pink sky.
I also wanted to ask - have you got any tips on which pictures to take during the winter? I really like summer, because everything is colorful and beautiful, even at night, but winter/autumn just seems cold and bleak.
I can't walk away without aswering your last question @jibspark. I am by no means a pro, just a plain amateur. While in general i might agree that winter is not the best time for photo shooters (who wants to walk in cold wind or extreme freezing if you can stay in warm and comfort?), this white season yet offers a lot of oportunities for a creative souls. To proove this i sugest to visit my blog, where i recently have posted a series of winter photos from variuos authors (it would be a lifetime task to make all these photos by myself). Once (and IF) you see em, you may tell me if you agree or not. :)
winter is snowy! :)
But if there's no snow there's nothing to do. You need to find compositions that work and interesting subjects. I bet small streams in the forest always look good. The sun might still come out from time to time and paint the evenings quite colorful. If want to photograph the sky, try photographing it by the sea
or a lake to get a symmetrical reflection. Also Try out different genres of photography: maybe some street and macro.
Thank you for this tips, hopefully in my next photography i will make sure to follow this tips.
Super. Your photos are fascinating!
Every points is very important. I have got 7 new tips. All of this tips will help me to take a photo next time. I will keep it in mind. Thanks for the wonderful 7 free tips.
Very competent advice. I can use them in composition of paintings. Thank you)
wow, amazing tips for photography :) I like photography very much and whenever I used to take a photo of my friends, they had always appreciated it. i think a camera play great rule as well :)
So many useful tips and all with examples! Thank you!
Oh Yeah. . Great tips. These tips are very important for photography.Your photography skills are very good, by sharing these tips you prove that you are really a great photographer. .
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Great advices!