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THE DO’S AND DON'TS OF TAKING PICTURES
Do...Get a large memory card of 1GB or more. 8GB cards are cheap
compared to a few years ago. You’re not wasting film or money remember. With a high capacity card, you can shoot all day and start again tomorrow without it costing you a penny. Use a high resolution. Someday, perhaps 10 years from now, you may
want to project that picture on a wall, or you may just want to crop it. You can always downsize a picture, never try to upscale to any great degree. Remember the built in flash only reaches about 12 feet (4 metres), so
don’t get too ambitious indoors or outdoors, it's better to use a high speed rating and a fast aperture or buy a good flashgun. Move in close to your subject, too many pictures we see are of a distant
person in a landscape shot, get them closer to the camera so you can recognise them. Do you really want their feet in the picture? Waist upwards is sometimes enough. Try crouching down, or holding the camera above your head, too many
shots are taken at face level. Make your pictures stand out by using a different angle, it might mean
Royal events
By Desmond Pugh photographer for the Monmouthshire Beacon
getting on the floor for that special photo of your pet. Take a picture with various settings and see the difference it makes. Learn the advance features on your camera: Your camera can help you
take better pictures sometimes. Put your subjects in front of a plain background, it will minimize the
distractions in the background. Ask other more established photographers for a little help, we were all
in your situation once, but don’t nick any ideas - that’s their style your copying. Get your own trademark style. Don’t...Leave your camera behind, one day you’ll come across that picture that may earn you some money Don’t think that you can improve the picture with Photoshop when you get back home. It makes you complacent and lazy when taking pictures, and a rubbish blurry picture is just that. Don’t overexpose. With digital pictures, once your ‘highlights are blown” ie your whites lose all detail, you will not get them back. Don't use digital zoom, well, almost never. If you need to blow up a piece of a photo, do it on your computer.
Desmond Pugh Photography
Historic events
Happy events
Contact 01600 750254; email
des@despugh.co.uk www.despugh.co.uk
Don’t use the ‘scattergun’ approach with taking pictures, better to take a few good ones than two dozen mediocre snaps. Don’t think all the best pictures are taken during the day when everyone else is out snapping, get a few when we’re still in bed. The author is a photographer with 30 years experience, and still learning.
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