Less than Secret Digital Photography Tricks
Posted on 07. Feb, 2009 by russell roberds in Photography
Have you ever wanted to take better pictures, but did not feel certain where to begin? Well, supposing that I revealed to you that in just a few seconds, you could be applying some excellent digital photography tricks that will take your pictures from all right to amazing!
If you are like me, you have thrown away a lot of time and sometimes a lot of money taking photos, that are, well, not that impressive. After countless years (too many to bring up), I finally decided to do something about it. I read a couple of books, magazines and took some classes to improve my digital photography. What I learned is that there are numerous digital photography tricks that are so simple, I picked them up in nothing flat and created amazing results.
I won't guarantee that you will be a professional from these digital photography tricks, but you will notice improvement from the very first photograph.
1. Fill the frame: One of the simplest digital photography tricks to understand, but harder to do. When you take a photo, how small is your subject in the frame? When I look at photographs that I snapped years ago, the subject constantly seemed to be taking up very little of the frame. Well, by filling the frame, you focus on the principal object. Also, on the occasion that the principal object takes up most or all of the frame, you eliminate any unattractive objects that otherwise might have made their way into the picture (i.e. the laundry, trash, signs, other people, the neighbors cat...). The criteria that I now put to work is if you imagine you are close enough, your not. If you imagine you are too close, then take the photo, you are the perfect distance away.
2. Would you repeat that?: One more easy digital photography trick is repetition. Repeating textures, colors or items create fantastic photos! Nature is the master at repetition; leaves on trees, trees in a forest, cloud patterns. Another study that manufactures excellent photos is to find a pattern and then locate an object that violates the orderliness, like a box full of red apples with one yellow one. The unpaired apple draws the viewer's eye into the photograph and also constructs a counterpoint.
3. One of the digital photography tricks used by many photographers is reflection: Our world contains all kinds of reflective objects and surfaces; glass, water, chrome and mirrors to note a few. They alter our normal awareness by bending the viewer's perception. If you take a picture of the reflection in lieu of the original, it can induce deeper interest to your picture. It produces a distortion of reality.
4. Last yet not the least of the digital photography tricks is to construct a frame within the frame. I am not saying a photo frame, I am talking about generating a frame encompassing your principal object using objects in the area around your subject. One idea is to locate yourself on one side of a door frame and your subject on the opposite side. Shoot the photo so that the door frame is around the edges of the view finder. The picture will pull the viewers eye to the interior of the frame and to your subject. It may also construct extra depth in the photo.
These are a few of the simple techniques that skillful photographers put to use to attain those awesome photos in magazines, books and on the web. My desire is that you will employ these digital photography tricks to enhance your picture taking talent. Happy shooting and say cheese (make mine white American)
