Photo Tips

Photo Tipsby Sequoia Elisabeth Carpenter : 

Photo Tipsby Sequoia Elisabeth Carpenter

Top 4 Tips : 

Top 4 Tips Lighting is everything! Usually it is best to have the light source behind the camera. All photos need to have a subject or focal point. Hold the camera steady! Any photo with blurring unless it is intentional is a toss out! ZOOM! Fill the view finder with the subject for best effect.

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The perfect photo, with the subject filling the picture, nice light on the subject, and nice sharpness

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Poor lighting from behind, subject is cut off at top and bottom. Try a vertical view with a flash to illuminate the subject.

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Great Photo! Nice use of lighting for special effect. Subjects in the middle of the frame but slightly off center.

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What is the subject? Poor composition with no central subject and haphazard layout. Weeds on the left are distracting. Would be better with a completely sharp iris near the center as a focal point.

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Nice picture with a central subject and good sharpness.

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Poor composition, blurry subject and subject less that 50% of the frame. The tree seems to grow out of the subjects head. Be aware of the background. Be careful about lines in the background cutting through the subject. To correctly do this picture ZOOM in and make sure the subject is in focus. People fit well into a vertical frame, or make sure the background is either out of focus or attractive.

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Poor composition, over exposure lighting (flash burnout), Subject is less than 50% of the frame. To correct this photo ZOOM in and reduce the brightness of the flash. Take several pictures till the lighting is right. A vertical is best to include head to toe, but this shot would be best as the upper half only filling the frame.

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Great composition, nice sharpness and color, however the branch on the left (arrows) is very distracting and almost ruins this photo.

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HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY, even at night the photo is not good with this much blurring, unless you are going for the streaking night lights effect . In this case the lighting is shaky, not streaky.

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Good night time photo with sharpness! Camera was braced on a solid railing. Or use a tripod. Auto exposure was used. Turn flash off.

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Subject must be sharp! It is doubtful that the brick background is the subject. The subject (fruit) should also be near the center of the frame. Use the off center rule when framing the subject, it is never dead center but a little to the left, or right.

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When photographing groups, center the group without cutting anyone out or getting them off center like this. The photographer may have been including the bear background and in this case they needed to move back and get the subject to stand still. The focus on this picture is poor probably because of subject motion.

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Great ZOOM, this photo is taken with a Marco setting on the camera and the lens about an inch from the subject.

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Macro ZOOM with nice detail in the flower to capture the patterns in the flower for an artistic effect.