3 Tips For You To Take Good Pictures

Do you know how far we gone from digital photography? It just seems 10 or plus years when we just start to see the power of digital photography. And people nowadays are mostly using digital camera and taking pictures can not be any easier than the older days. But how do you take good pictures with digital photography? Below are some tips to share with you. Enjoy. :-)

1. Lighting

It is a well known fact that the pictures taken from digital SLR cameras have better quality than normal compact digital camera. However the point and shoot camera can still give good quality picture when you have proper lighting to illuminate the subject.

And talking about lighting, most people will have no problem taking picture at the day time. Problems usually arise when you are taking picture at night when you need to use the flash.

For the standard compact digital camera users, it is common for a lot you to suffer glaring picture when you use the flash. This is because you were not given the power to control the intensity of your flash.

You can however stand further from the subject and zoom into it before you snap the picture. Although this step can solve the issue, it still have a challenge that how far you have to stand from the subject and this often require you to trial and error to get the hang of it.

Or, you can try to disperse the flash manually by sticking a piece of white paper in front if the flash, this somehow makes the pictures look odd. And if you have the patience you can run your own experiment to how to stick the paper so that you can disperse the flash properly.

2. Camera

Just like what you saw just now, camera plays a definite role in the quality of your picture. If you are using a digital SLR camera, you can take your picture in the RAW format so that the picture you took retains the details as you capture it. The camera will not do anything to alter the picture so that you can edit it as you like.

Although digital SLR cameras gives you the best quality picture, how do you know which camera give you the best? You obviously can't see the difference when you are testing the cameras at the shop.

Besides, the more testing and explanation you get from the sales person, the more confuse you will be. So, it is only logic that you spend some time research the cameras online, look in photography magazines and ask other experienced photographers for advice.

3. Techniques and skills

I am sorry to say that despite of all the things you can get, you still need a set of skills to get good quality pictures. And this is unlikely something that you get together with the camera.

Luckily, these techniques and skills to good quality pictures are easy to learn. All you need to do is to spend time studying the art, take pictures, hang out with like minded photographers and ask for their feedback. Sometime you can send your pictures to magazines to have the professional photographers to comment on it.

So, go out more often and take picture. Since you have the camera, it is a waste to let it lay there and collect dust. You are missing a lot of beautiful things uncaptured.

Happy taking picture,

Michael Wong. :-)