4 Simple and Effective Digital Photography Tips and Tricks
Let me talk you through four top tips for taking more interesting and memorable pictures...Tip 1: Make your Pictures Unique
If you"re photographing a popular subject that"s been snapped a thousand times before, try a different angle. When shooting a landscape, don"t just point and shoot ๒ lie on the ground and shoot from there to give a worm"s eye view or climb up high for a bird"s eye view.
In this example, the photographer shoots straight up the middle of the runner bean poles. Isn"t that more interesting than shooting head-on?
Get in closer and pick out details ๒ in short, get creative with your angles!
Tip 2: Experiment with Various Exposure Settings
By exploring the different exposure settings of your camera, make pictures look more brilliant with 0.5 to 2 stops underexposure in bright surroundings, other scenes will benefit from more clarity with some overexposure.
Simple exposure level tuning can express different moods in your pictures.
To get a really good grasp of various exposure levels, take several pictures of the same scene with different exposure levels and study your results.
Tip 3: Blur
By intentionally and creatively introducing blur to a photograph, you can bring extra clarity to important features. This can be done in two basic ways:-
*Depth-of-Field Blur ๒ This is achieved by varying the lens aperture between 0.4 and 1.4, creating a lovely, soft background blur and bringing the foreground subject sharply into focus.
This example keenly focuses on the insect and the flower it sits on, while giving only vague impressions of background aspects.
*Movement Blur ๒ By setting the camera exposure to shutter priority and keeping it slow, capture interesting streaks as the subject moves in front of the camera.
Tip 4: Create Something Out of Nothing
As an exercise, this encourages you to take a step back and rethink how you can create stunning pictures out of everyday objects.
Here"s an example of a shot taken for a kitchen assignment. Getting close up to an everyday item makes these peppercorns infinitely more interesting.
Take a fresh look at common elements around you, such as lines, space and patterns ๒ roads, bridges, trees, railings, etc.
Can you see the creative possibilities growing before your eyes?!
Now that you have some insight into digital photography tips and tricks, there"s one thing left to do ๒ grab your camera and put our tips into practice!