10) Bring the Subject closer
Say your shooting a shot in front of the large Disney Hat. Make you subject stand CLOSER to you instead of farther away. By having them stand CLOSER to the camera you will get a better image of them and actually give the background image a better perspective.
9) Remember distance rules with a flash
If your camera has a flash, remember to keep the subject you’re shooting between 1 to 6 feet from the camera. If the subject is farther than 6 feet away when you shoot, the subject will never get lit up by the flash.
Conversely, if your subject is closer than a foot, no matter how dark their skin is, you’re going to seriously bleach them out whiter than Michael Jackson skin.
8 ) Avoid Red Eye
Red Eye occurs when the flash reflects the back of our retina off of our eye balls and back into the camera. Professionals get around this by moving the flash away from the camera to create more normal looking eyes.
You can work around this problem by shining a really bright flashlight in their eyes thus causing the subject pupils to dilate ( or get smaller). If you have a smaller pupil when the camera fires the area that could reflect back will be much smaller and hopefully less visible.
Another trick is to ask your subject to not look directly at the camera but a point away from the camera thus removing the reflection point.
FYI Dog/cats eyes are extremely reflective so if you manage to get that shot of fido without looking like devil dog/cat consider yourself lucky.
7) Keep the noise out of your shot
If you have a zoom function on your camera this is a real important one to use. Nothing makes a photo more interesting when you take out all the things that the image really doesn’t need. The old saying holds true, less is really truly more!
6) 2 bodies are better than 1
When you can take photos of couple versus of single people alone in a shot. As human beings we love to see interaction and the interaction between 2 people we always find interesting.
5) Play with perspective
Stay below your subject’s eyes. If you shooting an image of a little kid make sure you (if you have to) lie on the ground. Yea you heard me right. Some of the best images are always taken from BELOW your subjects point of view. FYI This is a common mistake I see among regular professionals, If I happen to know how tall the subject was and can always tell you how tall the photographer that shot that subject.
4) Get it right the first time, but if you can’t, KEEP SHOOTING.
Most consumer grade cameras shoot a JPG image. This image is created using a complex one-way algorithm. In layman’s terms, what you got in the shot, is what you’ve got. If you attempt to alter the image later on, color shift and clarity will change. So, if you’re not sure you got it right the first time… Take another shot for a backup. Back in the day of film you were always spending money on film but now, you are just reusing usable bits in your memory cards when you fire a shot. So, Keep shooting. You can always delete the extras.
If your not sure you got it, Shoot Again, and Again, and Again.
3) USE PROPS/TOYS
As I say this I can just image what your thinking….. But seriously, If a friend finds a really cool hat to try on, Take a photo of it! If one or your friend is being goofy, take a photo of it.
As you do that your saving the memorable times in your life… So don’t ever forget to leave your house with out your camera…. I don’t!
2) Watch for Closed eyes
No one likes looking foolish in a shot. So when you take photos of groups of people take LOTS of extra shots so you can go thorough them later and delete all the images with people with their eyes closed.
There is nothing you can do about this… It just happens and even I have gotten caught looking goofy in a shot or two.
1) BE CREATIVE
When it comes down to it, just have fun and Be Creative. It’s the shots that are done out of the box that are the memorable ones and heck you just may get it posted on Huffington’s Post.
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