Get The Right Perspective

When you have discovered a scene..or a thing..or a person you want to photograph, take your time, if you can, getting the right angle…or perspective.
Do you want a low or a high angle?  Take your time if you can… to decide which angle you want. The beauty of the digital camera is that you can shoot [...]

Painting with sunlight…with direct sun hitting a major portion of your photograph, will add a dynamic look to your scene. Contrary to most thinking that says the best photographs are taken at mid morning or mid afternoon, I disagree. A bright sun shining on an object with a great amount of detail will give you [...]

Using light coming in a window can give your some very neat photographs of people and table top subjects.. In this day and age of super fast film and ISO’s on digital cameras you rarely need to use a flash indoors.
I can remember “way back when” when you had film speed with an ASA rating [...]

When you see a photograph that you really like, you might say, “Wow, I wonder what kind of a great   camera that person owns.” Well, believe it or not, it’s not  so much the camera as it is the person behind the camera. Creative people can take very good photographs with a cheap camera [...]

What you see in the in your viewfinder is what is going to end up in your photograph…and probably a bit more.  Sometimes that is good and sometimes that is bad.  You might end up getting things in your photograph that you really “saw” in your viewfinder but suddenly they are there when you look [...]

We are all confined to the size..or the format…of the photograph our camera takes for us. Most cameras have a horizontal format, others have a square format, but for some reason we seem to be bound by the format of the camera. But we should not be.
I am as guilty of that as anyone else. [...]

Don’t wait for the sun to shine before you take your next great photograph. While it is true the majority of good photographs are taken on sunny days, great ones are also taken on cloudy days as well.
There are two kinds of cloudy days…one that is overcast…or one that has fluffy clouds that are passing [...]

OK. You have this fantastic mountain scene…or river scene that you want to capture. You feel the light is good..or as good as it will be right now. What do you do next?  Walk around and take 100 shots of it..or spend a few more minutes and try to capture in your mind what you [...]

When you are developing your “eye” for great photographs, be alert for detail. What is detail? It is the “thing” that makes your photographs stand out above others.
If you are going to photograph a landscape, ask yourself…what is it in the landscape that makes this scene appealing to you? Specifically [...]

This week’s topic is for people who are having difficulty  “seeing” their photo.  You often hear people say, ”That person has an eye for a good photograph.” In most cases their “eye” was developed through trial and error and did not happen by accident. Many people have difficulty “seeing” the finished photograph though the camera’s viewfinder..or [...]