Digital Photography Tip - Pay Attention To Your Subject

When you are taking picture, you will want to make sure you pay attention to your subjects. Whether they are your friends, pets or even a fruit bowl, they should be the main focus of your picture. You want to show their details and their uniqueness. So, below are some tips to help you on that.

1. Attention

Just like what I said, you have to focus on your subjects. At that moment, they deserve 120% of your attention. Period. So, before you go into the shooting, prepare yourself make yourself comfortable with the subjects.

2. Proximity

One of the ways to make your subjects stand out is to get in close to them. You just walk towards them or zoom in with your lens. Your main responsibility here is to fill your frame with your subjects or part of them.

3. Select your background

Often, your subjects will come to you in a way that is totally the opposite of how you have imagined it should be. For the case of a fruit bowl, you can always rearrange yourself to make it suit your photograph shooting.

How about people or pet?

The inexperienced might not notice it. But you probably will bang your head on the wall when you see your subjects appear like that. If that is the case, the only thing you can do is to match your subjects with the best background you can get.

And that is why it is probably a good idea to have some light back drop in your studio.

4. Be creative

For all you know, there is no law in digital photography that depicts you have to do this and that to get good pictures. It is purely base on how you feel you will want to take the pictures.

So, when you want something different from your pictures, try to change the angle and move your subjects when you are taking pictures.

And of course, there are more things you can do to bring out the detail of your subjects. Just keep practice with digital photography and you will be better with it.

Happy taking pictures,

Michael Wong.