Simple Tips That Can Improve Your Photography

Photography is not as easy as it looks. Most of us click pictures without considering the angles or lighting. We may take good pictures but theres always room for improvement. By following some simple tips we can transform from average photographers to great photographers.

What Tips Can I Follow To Improve My Photography?

The main thing to decide is your subject. What is it that you want to capture on film? Is it a person or a group of people? Some natural landscape? Wild animals? There is an endless list of things you can click. Once you decide on your subject, you can look at some other areas to improve your photography.

If it is a person you want to focus on, then make sure there is enough light falling on the person. Also ensure that the background is not too cluttered with distracting elements. You could have someone standing in front of some bushes or a plain wall so that the focus is on that person only. Zoom in to emphasize the subject in your picture. Correct lighting and focus can do wonders for your photography.

Framing your subject gives a very aesthetic touch to the photograph. You can use your imagination to find natural frames for your pictures. You can frame a person in a window, a picket fence or even rock formations. Another tip to improve your photography is to make sure you do not make the picture look too monotonous. For example, if you are taking pictures of a group of people then make them stand around randomly instead of putting them in a straight line.

You have to be careful of many things if you wish to improve your photography. When you focus on the subject, make sure you are not cutting off any part of the body, as a lot of us tend to do. When someones head or arm gets cut out from the picture, it looks really bad. Another problem area is wrong positioning of the subject. You dont want to see a tree branch growing out of someones head or out of their ears! This is one thing about photography which you should be concerned about as it is not always easy to spot these things through the viewfinder.

You have a choice between portrait or landscape orientation. Portrait works best for tall objects such as people, buildings and trees as they give a vertical view. For shorter and longer subjects like animals, cars or some natural scenery you should use landscape or horizontal orientation. These simple tips should help you to improve your photography a great deal.

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