20 Tips for Short Photography

1. To practice your panning skills, capture the object was moving at normal speed (people ride motorcycles, for example), use the shutter priority mode and sets a maximum shutter speed of 1 / 30 second, slower is better. Watch your background!
2. For macro shooting (super close range), activate your Live View digital camera for easier check depht of field and focus.
3. CPL Filter (polarization) is very useful to eliminate the reflection of sunlight on water and glass, and also serves to improve the color of the sky. Have you ever wore sunglasses with a polariser?
4. When photographing children, make sure you focus on the eye. Nothing can beat the beauty of the eyes of children.
5. Megapixel is not the most important features of a camera, the size of the most important feature sensor
6. For portait photo (face) out of the room, try when the weather is cloudy. If not, look for the dim areas and not exposed to direct sunlight. Sunlight makes harsh shadows on faces.
7. When you take pictures in low light conditions and trouble using autofocus, switch to manual focus. Dikamera autofocus feature is usually long enough to find points of focus in dim conditions. 
8. For silhouette image, make sure you turn off the flash and use the sunset mode (for a pocket camera), for SLR use manual mode and measure the exposure in bright areas behind the object. 
9. Download the pdf version of the manual for your camera, so you easily perform a quick search for the word you want to know than to flip through pages of paper.
10. Before leaving for photographing, double check your camera settings, do not let you mneggunakan incorrect settings (photographing landscape with ISO 1000 for example). According to the pro photographer, that checks whether the sequence is the following: check the White Balance - set Highlight feature warning - check the ISO setting - check the size of your image resolution.
11. Format the memory card in the camera only, never format a memory card computer. In addition to much faster and easier too far safer if you do it on camera.
12.  If you have excess capacity of hard disks in computers and like to do photo editing, use RAW format when taking pictures, if not just use JPG.
13. If you really like landscape photography, Photograph in the following hours: from 5 pm to 8 am, and from 4 o'clock until 7 o'clock in the afternoon.
14. When taking pictures, look at the brightest area that comes into your viewfinder. If the light is too conspicuous than other areas, change the shooting angle.
15. To capture HDR, use the auto bracket mode. One more: for a great landscape photograph HDR, wait until it appears a bit cloudy, and start shooting. To capture HDR, use the auto bracket mode. One more: for a great landscape photograph HDR, wait until it appears a bit cloudy, and start shooting.
16. If you buy a lens or camera used, make sure you do a transaction with the seller directly meet. You must examine the goods, hold and try it
17. Extent possible, use an ISO setting as low as possible. Although noise reduction can reduce the noise generated by high ISO, but will reduce the overall image detail. 
18. If the color makes your photo is too "busy" and crowded, change your photo into black and white photos
19. To produce a good black and white photos, note the contrast in your photo. More and more contrast (dark and bright areas are diverse), the better your black and white photos. 
20. Bring a camera wherever you go, the quickest way to improve your photography is by extending the hours of flying, there's nothing better.
    
    
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