Tips To Be A Better Photographer!
Improve Your Skills As A Photographer
Being a better photographer is not only a matter of sensibility to certain scenery or human feelings - photographers have to be able to see and catch lightning-fast emotions appearing on people's faces - but it's also a matter of artistic maturity that comes after long training and practice.
Although you may simply need to take pictures for your family and for fun, you may want at some point to be able to improve the way you look to the world around you, so you can reproduce and propose it through a picture in a way that looks more effective, touching or amazing.
The boundary between boring photos and great photos is not that simple to see and that's the reason why most people tend to fall into a bunch of the most common mistakes that literally destroy the potential of their photos. Of course, you are not running for a photo contest but what matters is that you come up fully satisfied by your own photos.
Age Doesn't Matter
First and foremost, it's not true that you have to be young to learn photography OR that models have a best-before-age. Age is not a problem or a limit, not for you or your model. Probably a little more age can even help to enable you to understand more about human feelings, why not?
You will need to build your know-how and some experience taking photos on any occasion, comparing them and finding out what goes and what doesn't go. Anyway, you can start to improve your skills as a beginner photographer by following tips by established photographers. Start by following them on their social media accounts.
Look your subject in the eye
In certain situations, if you establish good eye contact with your subject you can get the most of their emotions and feelings in your picture. It will be a realistic photo that depicts a real-life moment. In order to take a photo with an excellent degree of eye contact, hold your camera at the subject's eye level and ask your subject to stare into the camera lens.
Catch the action
Most of the times photos look boring and plain if the subject is simply there doing nothing at all. Do you know those emotion-less mannequins standing in shop windows? Well, your goal is to make your subject look real and, above all, alive. So, ask them to move or to do something like walking, smiling and talking or doing some actions. If you are a freelancer selling your photos to other businesses you have great options of getting out on the field to catch real-life events. If you sell photos for a sports site, get out there to catch some unique images during their training. If you sell your photos to sites helping people to find a locksmith, as FindaLocksmith.org, or any other type of service provider, call them up, ask to join one of their workers for a day and get some unique images from their different types of work. Of course, you can always get a model pretending to relock a key or to duplicate a lost car key and take your shots but photos never lie. Make sure to get the real thing if you want to sell your photos and get recognition as a professional photographer.
Background makes the difference
Most people tend to focus on the subject of their shot forgetting about the background. Well, keep in mind that the background is as important, so make sure to choose a plain background without any distracting elements. The background should fill in only a small portion of the photo, otherwise, it will be hard to understand which one is the true subject of the photo.
Use the flash when outdoors
A very common mistake is to take photos outdoor without flash. Sun can create unattractive shadows that make your subject look dark. So, use your flash (your camera's built-in flash does also work very well) to contrast the sunlight and eliminate any unwanted shadows. You will get better lightning and the subject will look better.
Close-up photos
Some people are afraid to get closer to their subject, but it's what you have to do if you really want to take an effective picture. Getting closer doesn't mean to threaten the subject! It means to fill in the photo frame with their body or face so that you can get more of their emotions and facial details.
Protect your photos
Finally, grab your camera and catch every new occasion to take photos - photography is above all enjoying life.
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