3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Photography

In this article I will describe three simple ways to help you improve your photograph and help you produce professional looking photographs.

Tip 1

Composition is everything. The most common mistake made by inexperienced photographers is simply ensuring their subject is dead centre of frame with plenty of space or background around the subject. While this ensure that none of the subject is missing from the frame, it will usually lead to dull or uninteresting looking photographs.

Look at the pictures you see in newspapers and magazines and try to take note of the composition of their photographs. You should see two things; firstly the main subject is rarely in the centre of the frame and secondly most photographs, especially portraits are usually very tightly cropped so that the subject fills the frame completely.

Try to look at all photographs you see in the media and focus on the composition and cropping and the effect that this give the photographs.


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Tip 2

One of the simplest tips that many photographers can use to improve their shots is to shoot in black or white or convert their shots into moonochrome if shooting digitally. For some reason a black and white image places much more emphasis on the subject - possibly as colours distract the viewers attention. A useful skill that many photographers talk about is being able to see in black and white. This simply involves visualizing a particular scene to see if a monochrome image would lend more power to the subject matter.

To see the difference this can make go back to some colour photographs you have already taken and convert them to black and white. I guarantee you will suddenly 'discover' some great shots!

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Tip 3

Do you sometimes end up with pictures where the sky is too bright or your subjects face is dark? If so then your images are either under or over exposed. This is usually due to your camera metering the light reading off the wrong subject. On a bright sunny day the best way to get a good exposure is to take your meter reading from the blue sky. This will usually yield you the perfect exposure.

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