Mike
Carruthers:
When you go on vacation this summer you'll want to take some pictures
to remember the experience.
Amadou Diallo:
When you're talking about vacation and snapshots one of the
biggest things, and especially if you're shooting outdoors,
is to make sure that everyone is not looking directly into the
sun.
Professional
photographer Amadou Diallo, author of the book
Mastering Digital Black & White…
One of the things
that a photographer with more experience would do is just sort
of face everyone so that they can all look comfortable, look
straight ahead and they're not squinting looking into the sun.
That's a big one, you see that a lot.
If you have a
digital camera you know that there's a delay between the time
when you first push the button until the photo is actually taken.
In the industry
they call that "shutter lag", so one helpful tip is
when you're framing your image in the camera you can always
half press the shutter. You press it half way, and what that
does is that allows the camera to set its auto-exposure and
auto-focus. And then when you click the second half of that
button the picture will be taken much, much, more quickly.
And for more
memorable photos, Amadou says…
Get close to
your subject. A lot of people just by default tend to stand
ten, fifteen feet away from whomever or whatever they're shooting.
And one of the elements of really good framing or composition
is to really try to fill the frame with your subject - so that
makes a big, big difference.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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