Photography Basics on Facebook
With the facebook craze continuing to grow, I thought I’d start a group to work along with this site.
So, if you are a facebook member, then stop by and join the photography basics group, or if you aren’t a facebook member, get registered now and join a huge community.
Photography Quick Tip#7 – Watch wildlife first
If you are trying to take pictures of wildlife, the first thing to do is to sit down, out the way, quietly, and just watch the animal you want to take a picture of.
Getting used to how it behaves will let you get closer to it, and you might get a more spectacular image from [...]
Wildlife shooting tips
I will be covering shooting (photographically, not bulletty) wildlife in more detail in the future, but I just found a good post by Chris Garrett from the DSLRBlog called Wildlife Photography Tips For Beginners. It’s got some good advice for going from taking pictures of your pets or creatures in your garden to getting out [...]
Looking into the frame
Another of the techniques I mentioned in my composition overview is a simple composition technique which works quite well and that is to give the subject of the image space to look into.
If you are taking pictures of people or animals and they are not looking directly at the camera, give them the space to [...]
Photography Quick Tip#6 – Use a tripod
Tripods will ensure that your picture is free from camera shake, giving you a much sharper picture. Of course this depends on whether the tripod is sturdy and you get the focus correct.
Tripods can be quite cheap, but you will find the the cheap ones are fairly flimsy when extended to any height. It is [...]
Memory Card Readers
When you want to transfer your images from your camera to your computer, how do you do it?
A lot of people will get the USB cable out and connect their camera to their computer to transfer their files. This is not only fiddley to do, but it means you have to have your camera on [...]
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