Photography tips – get out and shoot!

in Photo Blog Photography tips by Jamie HIBBERT — January 19, 2010 at 4:11 pm | 2 comments

Camera in Motion

Improve your photography – Take Photographs

Photography is a huge learning curve. In the past I have explained a bit about depth of field in photography. In Cornwall we are spoilt for choice with landscape, seascape and town vistas. But don’t stop here. To improve your photography you need to TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS!

So my third photography tip is just take that camera where ever you go today and take photos. The image shown here is a bit of fun. I was returning home from a shoot (as a passenger I add!!) and for some unknown reason I decided to shoot everything I could see, testing and trialing to see what happened. I was shooting through a dirty car window in horrid light. There were colour cast in all different hues around me from the differing light sources, but I made no excuses and just carried on shooting – lets see what happens! was my mantra.

Take this shot. Its not the best, by far. It’s fun and has potential though. Its given me ideas for lots more images and I know how to improve on it.

Cleaning the car window will be the first step. Waiting for an evening with more interesting light, exposure times,  relax further when holding the camera, which focus setting gave the best results and which setting to use the camera in!! The next image similar to this I think I will follow a friends car and use an off camera strobe and pop it in the car in front to see what effect that will give – I could just add that important dimension into the shot, drawing the eye deeper into the image…

So, you have your camera, you have no cost for processing, lets burst off a memory card full of photographs. Shoot around the home, take snaps of yourself making coffee, adjust the camera out of your comfort zone, put it in manuel and eak out the exposure, use your flash in rear curtain sync, Move the camera around, change focus during and exposure, adjust the white balance to get different colours in your photographs. You can edit your images with this photography tip if you need to.

I think the answer is to PLAY and learn, soon you will improve your photography technique!!

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