Every time I see an article that offers tips for photo taking, I either clip it out or copy it to add to my collection. I find it helps keep things fresh, and reminds me of techniques I may have forgotten about.
This most recent one appeared in the August 2006 Reader's Digest on page 150. I thought I'd share it, since it never hurts to
receive input and ideas!
Picture Perfect ~ GERRY HALL, in The Toronto Star
You may be proud of your vacation photos, but they may seem to fall short of the quality you see in travel magazines. To improve your photos, the Society of American Travel Writers offers these tips:
*Shoot in early morning and late afternoon. It'll add more colour and shadows to your photos, giving more definition to your subject.
*Put locals in your photos. Ask permission first and don't pose them.
*Pay attention to details in the background- often, a tree or a telephone pole seems to be growing right out of your subject's head.
*Before you click, wait for the clouds to clear, the truck to move away from the front of the cathedral or other distractions to pass.
*Show a sense of location. In the tropics, frame the photo with palm trees; in the mountains, frame it with pine trees.
*Look for a new angle on the familiar: Shoot the beach on a foggy day instead of in the sun, or shoot bright colours on an overcast day.
2 comments:
The comment of taking photos from different angles is a really good point. A photo of something that everyone takes is always bettter when the same image is taken from a unique angle.
me
thats cool. My cousin and i wound up w almost identical pics of the same sign at the mall from different days. It was funny- i wasn't with him when he took his.
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