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Photography
Tips
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Travel Tip |
If you're travelling you can't get away from carrying your camera around. And depending on where and how you go it will need some protection. There is no end of different soft and hard bags, but wherever you go one good thing to have is some plain old plastic bags, ones big enough for your camera, film and accessories is preferable. You never know when you're going to be caught in the rain or be told right out of the blue that you're going on a boat.
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| Portrait
Photography Tips |
A lot of people feel nervous in front of a camera so a photographers first job when they're sitting someone down for a portrait is to get them to relax. Put on some of their favourite music, find out what they are interested in or passionate about and engage them.
Before long it will be a conversation, and not a photo session. The important thing when you're taking sameness portrait is to animate them, to light their eyes. If you get them thinking and feeling then you will get some expressions that reveal a lot about your subject.
You're not there to just photograph their face, you want to capture their character and personality. You want the viewer find something out about the person in the portrait.
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| Flower
Photography Tip |
Regardless of what lens you have, its easy to take a good picture of flowers. So you don't absolutely need a macro lens.
If you have a telephoto lens (100mm-400mm) you can take advantage
its shallow depth of field and isolate one flower against
an out-of-focus background.
∑ One good trick is to get a bugs eye view. If your camera has a wide-angle lens (14mm-28mm), set it on timer and place it face up in a bunch of flowers and get out of the way. Suddenly your tall flowers look forest rising above your camera. |
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Photography Tip - Sunsets |
Not surprisingly, the one problem with photographing sunsets is the sun itself. First of all its incredibly dangerous to look through the viewfinder of a camera that's pointing at the sun, even if it's low in the sky. Secondly, film can't record extreme bright light and contrast, regardless of the colour. Your picture will be blown out, there will be no detail.
Wait until the sun has started to go below the horizon, that is when it's at its dimmest, or point away from the sun partially or completely and think about the look of the sky or the terrain around the sun.
Another solution would be a neutral density filter. Basically
what it does is cut down on the amount of light coming through
the lens. They come in various grades. The following table
shows how much reduction each grade gives:
Density 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 2 3 4
Reduction
by f-stops 1/3 2/3 1 1 1/3 1 2/3 2 2 1/3 2 2/3 3 3 1/3 6 2/3
10 13 1/3
Wait
Until the Sun Sets
Keep an eye out for high, wispy clouds. 15-20 minutes after
the sun has gone down they will turn a lovely golden colour.
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