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Jul
11
You know what it’s like. You go on holidays. You get to see some stunning sights and go to some fantastic places. You take lots of photos, but when you get home you’re always disappointed at how dull, lifeless and ordinary your photos look.
You wanted to convey so many things in your photos. That special sunset. That light that just turned the view into something special. And that moment when you took that delightful smile on your girlfriends face. Except that when you view your photos none of those things are there.
I don’t mean simple mistakes like your thumb over the lens. After all you do know something about photography and you’ve bought a good quality digital camera. You’ve spent some time reading all about it and you’ve managed to get some confidence that your photography skills are on the up and you really ought to be taking good photos now.
But each time you download your photos you’re disappointed. The results aren’t there. Your photos just don’t tell the story you wanted.
It’s often a simple step to go from taking ordinary photos to taking good photos you can be proud of. You don’t need to go to College for years, you just need to learn some simple basic processes that every photography professional knows.
Like simple stuff such as how to compose a photo properly, how to use light to it’s best advantage. How to take people and pets. How to take landscapes, how to use a tripod or flash properly.
Modern cameras are excellent. They are manufactured to take good photos, but it isn’t sufficient to just point and shoot as the ads seem to say. You still need to know some photography basics. There is no camera in the world that will take great photos guaranteed, every time, if all you do is to point and shoot.
Now of course if they could make a camera that would take great photos every time just with point and shoot they would, the market would be huge. But the person behind the lens still needs to learn some photography basics.
I’m not saying it’s hard, just that there are some secrets of the pros that you need to learn and practice and apply them to take great photos.
You’ll go on holidays next time feeling confident with good reason. You’ll be able to be confident to hand them around to your friends and you might even find them asking you for some good photography tips.
And you’ll be pleased to see your girlfriend smiling your photos too.
I’ve written a book about how to take better photos, you can get it on my website.
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