Useful photography tips from around the web
Monday, August 04, 2008
From Digital Photography School: 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits
The Rule of Thirds is one that can be effective to break - placing your subject either dead centre can sometimes create a powerful image - or even creative placement with your subject right on the edge of a shot can sometimes create interesting images.
From PopPhoto: How To Shoot Cityscapes
To capture the motion, I like to go with the longest possible exposure time. From my experience with digital cameras, 8 seconds is about the maximum exposure time I can record before digital noise becomes an issue.
From Photojojo: How to Mount a Camera on a Bike
Cameras are cool and bikes are cool, and the two together are downright freezing. Plus, the Tour de France is in full swing. It's the season of the bike!
From Instructables: How to take awesome night photos without a tripod
Relax, you don't have to run out and buy a new fancy-shmancy digital camera to do this. Most digital cameras that aren't the bottom-of-the-barrel or older than 3 years old will let you do this.
From idigitalphoto: Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time
If you use your camera's red-eye reduction setting when taking flash photographs of people you avoid red-eye, but there's a delay in taking the shot which may cause you to miss the moment.
From Jake Ludington: How to mount a camera on your car window
Several years ago, I ran across a great solution for doing exactly this....
From Digital Photography School: How to Reduce Camera Shake
As often as possible pull your elbows in to your body and exhale completely before depressing the shutter. When you're working with a wide aperture or low shutter speed (or both), even a breath can introduce shake.
From Unpluggd: How to take great nighttime photos
Almost all cameras today have a nighttime option on their cameras, so take advantage of it. It sets everything for you so you don't have to sit there fiddling with buttons.
Flickr photo by DEMOSH used under Creative Commons license
The Rule of Thirds is one that can be effective to break - placing your subject either dead centre can sometimes create a powerful image - or even creative placement with your subject right on the edge of a shot can sometimes create interesting images.
From PopPhoto: How To Shoot Cityscapes
To capture the motion, I like to go with the longest possible exposure time. From my experience with digital cameras, 8 seconds is about the maximum exposure time I can record before digital noise becomes an issue.
From Photojojo: How to Mount a Camera on a Bike
Cameras are cool and bikes are cool, and the two together are downright freezing. Plus, the Tour de France is in full swing. It's the season of the bike!
From Instructables: How to take awesome night photos without a tripod
Relax, you don't have to run out and buy a new fancy-shmancy digital camera to do this. Most digital cameras that aren't the bottom-of-the-barrel or older than 3 years old will let you do this.
From idigitalphoto: Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time
If you use your camera's red-eye reduction setting when taking flash photographs of people you avoid red-eye, but there's a delay in taking the shot which may cause you to miss the moment.
From Jake Ludington: How to mount a camera on your car window
Several years ago, I ran across a great solution for doing exactly this....
From Digital Photography School: How to Reduce Camera Shake
As often as possible pull your elbows in to your body and exhale completely before depressing the shutter. When you're working with a wide aperture or low shutter speed (or both), even a breath can introduce shake.
From Unpluggd: How to take great nighttime photos
Almost all cameras today have a nighttime option on their cameras, so take advantage of it. It sets everything for you so you don't have to sit there fiddling with buttons.
Flickr photo by DEMOSH used under Creative Commons license
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