Digital Photography Tips

1. Digital Photography Tips By: Chandler and Neya

2. Rule of Thirds • Place your points of interest along the fines or intersections . If you do this it will allow people to interact with the picture more naturally. • Split the picture into 9 equal sections.

3. Working With Lines • The lines that can be found in images are very powerful elements. • Horizontal, vertical, diagonal • Lines can make an image look far away, up close, small, tall, etc.

4. Finding Fresh Angles • Changing the angle you shoot from can impact the feeling and the size of your subject. • This can also have a real effect upon the lights, shades, and patterns.

5. Photographing Children • To photography babies easily, lay them down on a blanket and get eye to eye with the baby and your camera. • When photographing older children, it is best to get the picture when they are doing things they enjoy. • When you photograph kids it is good to get multiple shots.

6. Getting horizons horizontal • When your horizon is not horizontal, it can ruin a brilliant shot. • When your horizon is slightly off, it does nothing except make your photo viewers feel dizzy or make then lean their heads when they view your shots.

7. Getting Images Straight • Unless your going for a real effect, take a moment before you take your shots to ask yourself a question about when likes there are in your view finder. • Don’t just consider your horizon, horizontal lines, and vertical lines. • Once you get your shot, don’t move around too much.

8. Fill Your Frame • Getting close to a person in action can show more detail. • If you take pictures far away, from the action then what you are really truing to get a picture of can get lost in its surroundings. • 4 ways to fill your frame: Optical zoom, Digital zoom, use your legs, crop your shots.

9. The Importance of Focal Points. • There are 6 techniques to enhance a focal point in your image: Place a prominent position, focus on a certain point, blur out things infront or behind the object, make your focal points larger, use contrasting colors, similarly contrasting shapes, shapes and textures.

10. Photographing Moving Objects. • Moving object=Active Space • Space behind= dead space

11. Getting Backgrounds Right. • Check your background before hitting the shutter release. • Move your object. • Change your shooting angle • Using aperture to blur backgrounds • Using focal length to blur backgrounds. • Place subject in of open spaces. • Fill your frame with your subject. • Make your own background.

12. Framing your shots. • Giving the photo contexts • Giving images a sense of depth • Leading the eye toward your main focal point • Intriguing your viewer.

13. Using Converging Lines • Take this shot and the natural reaction for those looking at the scene will be for them to follow the lines into the distance • Experiment with positioning, wide angle lenses • Position the “convergence” • Add interest at the convergence

14. Bibliography • http://www.taramcglinchey.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/smiling_newborn_baby_girl_tenafly_newborn_photographer.jpg • My camera.