Tip #10: Background can make or break a picture
January 30th, 2010
Background makes or brakes an image. One of the important thing you have to keep an eye for before clicking your shutter is to make sure the background is not cluttered or disturbing because it will not help the subject in the foreground to stand out or blend in however you want it to be.
Tip #9: Taking pictures with seamless white background.
January 30th, 2010
1.Light the BG evenly with two lights one on either side.
2.Use flag to keep the lights from spilling
2.Use a light and a reflector for subject and flag or use grids to keep the light from spilling onto the background.
3.Use a hair light for separation
4.The background lights can get gels to make them colored.
Tip #8: Patience is a virtue
January 30th, 2010
If you want to be good at photography and still want to get better at it you should have patience and have a lot of it. You should be willing to wait patiently for the right sunlight or the right movement of your subject or even the right subject to show up. You should be willing to invest hours making a perfect picture
Tip #7: Take breathtaking Landscape pictures
January 13th, 2010
Nature offers so many beautiful subjects that are all around us. Landscape photography is an art where you have to capture the essence of the location that you are seeing in the real world and display it to your viewers in the way you enjoyed the scene yourselves. There are some basic rules that you should follow when taking a landscape photograph and as always, in photography you should not be afraid of breaking those rules.
- When Framing the scene try to find a subject with a center of attraction or a matter of importance and try to find lines that lead to this main subject. Frame the scene so that it contains a center of interest – an object that draws the viewer’s eye into the picture.
- Once you have selected the subject of attraction try to place it off-center. This is the rule of thirds.
- Unless absolutely necessary, do not place the horizon in the center of the picture.
- Try to include a subject that would give the viewers a scale of the scenery.
- Wait for dramatic lights. Sunset and Sunrise and the time before and after it are the best lights one can get for landscape pictures.
- Unless you are knowingly lighting some objects in the foreground, please switch your flash off.
- Use tripod to make sure the pictures are sharp and if you are doing a panorama shot, you should definitely use tripods.
- Try to keep your ISO to the lowest possible value.
- As always for any type of photography, think before you click the shutter button. Make sure there are no unnecessary objects that would affect your composition. If possible move those objects and if you cannot then try to see if you can avoid them from your composition.
Tip #6: Become a Story teller
January 12th, 2010
This is a very important tip if you want to be a successful photographer. It is the heart and soul of photography. Your picture should speak to itself and convey what you are trying to say. In a gist it should speak 100 words for you. Although this is an important tip for any kind of photographer, its a must have quality for a wedding photographer. Bring out the action, emotion and motion of your subjects and tell a story to the viewer. Look through all the pictures of famous photographers and see how they tell a story about a place. This will give you some wonderful ideas that can inspire you.
Tip 5 # Constantly staying in touch
January 11th, 2010
Change is something that is consistent in the world of photography. With the technology advancing leaps and bounds there is literally new equipments, techniques and ideas coming out every single day. This makes it inevitable for both amateur and pro photographers to keep updated to the latest trends. To constantly keep yourself in touch with photography updates it is very important to browse through photography news, websites and blogs. The best way to go about doing this is to create a Google home page with feeds from important blogs and websites. Select photographers whom you wish to follow and sign up to their RSS feeds or add their blogs to your Google home page. Another great option is to make an alltop page for yourself(photography.alltop.com). Keep your eyes and mind wide open and accept the changes and trends.
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Tip #4: Tips for better travel pictures
January 10th, 2010
OK you have booked your tickets, made all your reservations and all set to get out and travel a new place. You hope to come back with some great pictures but don’t know how? Here are some tips that can get you great travel pictures
1. Look through others pictures. Before traveling to a place, go to flickr and search for that place and see what are other photographers perspectives and favorite spots. Find out the locations and add to your maps.
2. Read more about those locations and find their significance. Knowledge gives you a whole new perspective of the place.
3. Once you are at the location, do not take the camera out. Scout for different views and angles. Try to see the usual views and the unusual views, something that was not shot before.
4. Now take the camera out and think about the different type of shots you could be making at that location. viz., HDR, Pano, Motion Blur etc.,
5. Mingle with the local crowd for some great people pictures. Pictures with a heart beat is better than one without it.
Come back with great pictures to showcase.
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HDR tips of the Day
January 10th, 2010
Tip #1: (HDR Photography) – When do you decide if you really have to make a HDR pic? If a scene that you are looking at has a dynamic range larger than your camera can capture. Simply put if you eyes goes just gaga over to adjust to different intensity of light and dark spots then its definitely a HDR scene.
Tip #2: (HDR Photography) – Fixing Sky in HDR: Lot of times when working on pictures with Sky especially mid day sky, the sky turns out to be a strange color. This is mostly due to the Halo effect. In such cases move your Luminosity in your tone mapping towards the right or remix the tonemapped picture with your original exposure shot for the sky in Photoshop.
Tip # 3: (HDR Photography) – Where should your white and black points be in Photomatix Tone Mapping? Move these two sliders right and left making sure your bell curve in the histogram does not run over the extreme points.