Top 10 Tips for Photography

Photography Tips

Hi Guys photography is one of most exciting venture. To identify the best photographs one has to understand the taste of

Audience that’s why selection of picture plays a vital role. Here are top ten photography tips to improve your cameraman skills. Hot tips that will make one mastering digital cameras.

-Tips on lighting, exposure and composition technique and other aspects of photography.

In today world time is most important keeping that in mind here are Top 10 Tips:

1.    Identify your best picture

First of all, one has to select best of your pictures to showcase it to others ignore other stuff. It’s not important to show all of your photographs and gets very boring. So better to show few but good photographs which you think is perfect.

2.   Cropping and Framing

Most important part in photography is filling the frame. One has to know what to leave out, what to put in and where to put it.

One of best ways to improve your photography skills is with careful attention to framing. Consider viewfinder and look into the corner to see what is there.

Do you want to cover all background? Can you get closer to your subject or Zoom in? Does picture looks better as an upright or landscape?

3.   Flash Light

One of worst king of lighting is provided by little flash fitted in all modern cameras. It gives your subject the dreaded red eyes and flattens all faces in the shadowless featureless blobs. One has to use the flash light only in an emergency, when there is no other choice. 

4.   When to use Flash in Camera

When photographer has to use the in camera flash, better to keep your subject away from walls, especially light coloured ones, if at all possible and avoid that ugly black shadow which look an outline. This will not show up against a dark background.  

5.   Exposure – Use Auto exposure, becomes your advantages

Exposure means the amount of light that falls onto the sensor of your digital camera, in today cameras exposure is usually set to automatic by default and, most of the time, it can be left there and will produce beautiful pictures. Getting correct exposure means recording as much of the relevant information in the scene possible. Even when exposure is correct the problem with all camera is that they cannot record the entire range of the contrast (Black to white) that the eye can see.  If you have latest camera, the chances are that the default metering system, is ‘center weighted avaerage’ which means it takes an average reading of the whole scene, and notices of what is the middle of the frame, that’s good news for us. The next good news is that it takes this reading at time when you take ‘first pressure’ on the button to take your picture. Whenever you push the button halfway down it beeps at you not only is the focus not set but exposure reading is taken and aperture and shutter speeds are set. A common use for this technique is when you are taking a close up shot of two people and there is space between their heads, if you're not careful the camera will focus on the wall or trees behind them. If the background is very dark or very light this can alter the exposure significantly and result in faces that are too dark or too light.

6.   Speeds of the shutter

Photography of moving object, it is good idead to set the camera to ‘shutter speed priority” mode. This is where you select the shutter speed and camera selects the appropriate aperture according to light reading. Shorter the time that shutter is open the sharper the photo will be.

7.   Apertures of the camera

To cover the depth of the field, it is important to either make sure everything is in focus or to throw some things out of focus, select the “Aperture Priority” mode on your camera. In this mode you can select the aperture and camera select the shutter speed according to the available light.

In case you are shooting in bright light and want to restrict the depth of field, use a neutral density filter in front of the lens to reduce the light entering the lens. These are available in different densities, 2x, 4x, 8x etc. each one cutting the light in half, quarter, eighth etc. In extreme circumstances you can screw a couple of them together. Although they are 'neutral density' filters and should not effect the color balance, if you use two or more together you might need a little color correction at the printing stage.

8.    Be unique-creative - Photography is a visual thing so there's no point of taking photos of ordinary things which are unattractive to the eye. Make your shot interesting, be creative with colours, and don't just copy other photographers' ideas! It is a good practice, and I encourage you to do it, for beginners only! Observe how the photographer placed the objects, what colours he used, what techniques, how he presented the idea and after you have learned all these skills, apply them to YOUR idea!  

9.   Landscape or Portrait? Real photographer will take care while taking a shot without wasting millions of pixel.

10.  Light Direction

Light play significant role in case of photography. Direction of the light falling on your subject is quite important one must look at your subject carefully and see how the shadows fall. Shooting when sun too high tends to mean the subjects eyes will be in shadow and your subject will be squinting in the strong light , and will look horrible. Nice effect of shooting in the early morning or late afternoon is that the color of the light is warmer, reds and yellows are stronger that provide pleasing effect. If one is trying to shoot in the sun, photographer has to position so that sun hits your subject from the the side, this will give you nice modeling and help create a 3D effect in the picture. Sunlight behind the subject may give a very pleasing ‘backlight’ effect but be careful that you are not getting ‘flare; in the lens, which degrades the contrast of the photograph.