10 Digital Photography Tips For You...

As a beginner in digital photography, you might find it challenging to take a satisfying picture. Look at the 10 tips below and you will be able to improve your digital photography with little effort.

1. Take vertical shots

People are so used to taking pictures in landscape format because the LCD was designed to be horizontal. So, it is now time to make some changes and start to take some pictures vertically. You will see a different perspective in your pictures.

Instead of just taking your pictures vertically and horizontally, you can tilt your digital camera in different angle to appreciate the different beauty of your subject.

2. Off the center

Again due to the landscape format of the LCD, a lot of people like to take the picture with their subject at the center. You can make your pictures more interesting by moving your subject to the side and include more background.

3. Create your own style

You can always refer to how other photographers take their pictures. You will see different people will have different preference in displaying their works and that is what you need to learn.

Use other photographers' works as a guide and develop your own style of photography.

4. Get inspire

Sometime you will be frustrated why you just seem to fail to get the picture up to your standard. When this happen, go look at other photographers work again. You can find these pictures easily online and one of my favorite is to read 'National Geographic'. They have splendid pictures and always impress me that you can take pictures in ways that you never imagine.

5. Subscribe

You can only learn so little things on your own. That is why you need to subscribe to our local photography magazine and study the current information about improving your photography skills.

You can also subscribe to other photographers newsletter online. Often, these newsletters are free and the photographers will share their some tips with you about photography.

6. Tripod

Some photographers tend to have shakier hands than others. When you have problem stabilizing your camera (sometime the anti-shake feature in the digital camera just doesn't perform as good as stated in the advertisement), a tripod is a handy partner to improve your digital photography skills.

Tripods nowadays are design to be light weight, easy to carry and most importantly price savvy.

7. Hold the camera properly

This tip is for those who, for some reasons have problem accessing a tripod.

You need to hold your camera with both hands where your right hand is use to press the shutter button and your left hand is to support the camera. And depending on the size of your camera, your left hand should be holding the camera entirely for compact digital camera (becareful not to block the flash) and supporting the lens for DSLR camera.

8. Flash

Never limit the flash of your digital camera (most digital cameras nowadays come with rechargeable batteries).

Sometime you are force to take picture with a light source at the back of your subject. When you safe the flash under these circumstances, your subjects will appear dull and shadowed. However, when you pop a flash at these moments, you will make your subjects livelier.

9. Select the best mode

Compact digital camera nowadays comes with different modes so that you can maximize the pleasure of digital photography without getting a DSLR camera.

You need to expose your pictures to different mode to get the best picture. For starter, you simply can't use the normal mode to capture your favorite football star in action. Very likely, you will get a blur image. You need to use the sports mode to get a more favorable picture.

10. Know the features

Your digital camera is your tool to a perfect picture. That is why you must understand your camera features and you can only do that by reading your manual.

I do understand manuals can be boring sometime. Still, you can only maximize your camera and get the ideal pictures when you know what your camera can do. So, spend sometime with your manual and you will have more fun with digital photography.

Have fun photographing,

Michael Wong. :-)