Add Impact to Your Subject

If you enjoy taking photographs of people,, flowers scenes or just about anything for that matter, you never have took very far to find a subject. The big problem is trying to add impact to your photograph.

The problem is not with the camera, but with the person behind the camera. Used properly, an inexpensive camera can give you just as much impact as a very expensive one. It is the person behind the camera that counts. These days with nearly all cameras having zoom lenses, the job is fairly simple.

If you are taking photographs of landscapes, you can wait until there are a lot of puffy white clouds in the sky…that will always give you impact…if you can wait until there are clouds.

A second thing you can do is to have a bright object in front of a dark background…a flower for example in the sunlight with dark leaves behind it or dark shadows behind it.

While this sounds easy, using cameras with automatic exposure makes it more difficult to accomplish. For example, if your camera has a center point which determines your exposeure, you will want to make sure it is pointed at the center of the bright spot of the photograph…and not the dark.

The photograph of the pine bough stands out because of the white snow on its branches.

The logs are dramatic because of the light and dark areas of the wood and the way that the sunlight hits it.