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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Getting the Best Pictures with a Digicam

By Tom Michaels


Some quick tips for getting the best stills with a digital camera:

Digital Pictures On The Beach

The problem with beach shots is frequently too much light which casts shadows in all of the wrong places. Be certain the sun is behind the photographer. Also, the natural light is very much more picture friendly in the mid-to-late afternoon. Avoid cutting the image in half by taking it with the horizon line smack bang in the middle of the image. You need the horizon line to be straight, but not straight across the middle. Think in 3rds when composing your photographs.

Snapping Flowers

Flowers can be photographed from many varied angles just be sure to select a fascinating focal point and do not forget to think in thirds when organizing your composition. To get the very finest colour reproduction avoid photographing flowers in brilliant light - but dimmer lighting means longer exposure times and this can end up in camera wobble so try utilising a tripod or camera stand.

Taking Digital Photographs to Sell Your Stuff On EBay

It is said that a picture is worth 1000 words and on EBay it has been proved that lists with good footage have more and higher bids. Set up a mini studio by clearing an area and setting up a plain background - a single color sheet is fine for this. You would like viewers to be absolutely targeted on the lot for sale, not examining the contents of your living space. Be conscious of reflective surfaces exposing more of the photographer than she or he might expect, particularly if flash is employed.

Using Your Digicam to Photograph Fireworks

Capturing fireworks is difficult as you can not be completely sure where the wind will take them or what their fuse length is. Pick your location fastidiously - you do not need to disappear in a plume of firework smoke nor do you need your perspective of the sky obscured by overhanging branches or roofs. To get the very finest pictures of fireworks select manual settings and use ISO settings of less than 200. Observe the initial few fireworks to determine which part of the sky they illuminate so you know where to target your Nikon D3000 digital SLR camera. Open the shutter as fast as you hear the telltale shriek of a firework getting airborne and close it once the firework has exploded. Due to the long exposure times do use a stand or tripod to avoid wobble.

Action Shots With a Digital Camera

To capture clear action shots you want to set a very fast shutter speed so this is another example where picking a manual mode could be more successful than leaving the camera to work things out for itself in automobile. Fast shutter speeds lead directly to low exposure times so lighting needs to be good. Zoom lenses constrain the quantity of light entering the camera so can make the apparent light available even poorer. For this reason it's far better to get as close as you can to the topic instead of use a zoom lens. Choose the highest ISO you have available to provide compensation for the low exposure times. A handful of fast times to getting the best pictures with a digital camera in a selection of popular photographic eventualities - remember nothing replaces practice.




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