Photo by straightfinder This tip was submitted by DPS reader, Todd. Hi Darren, here’s a tip that I’d love to share with your readers. When I’m out and about with my digital camera I’ve gotten into the habit of taking at least two shots of almost every scene that I see. A Symmetrical shot and [...]
Looking for a unique perspective to shoot from that gets a WOW response from those you show your shots to? One of the simplest and yet most effective techniques to do this is to get right down low – flat on your stomach to take your shots. This especially has impact when you use a [...]
Over at our Flickr forum we’ve had an assignment running for the past few days on Alternative Composition. I’ve written on the topic previously here in a post titled Finding Fresh Angles to Shoot From but some of the shots being submitted in the forum are a great set of examples of what a new [...]
Photo by webinteger After my last overseas trip I received emails from two fellow travelers from the tour group I shared two weeks with as I toured around Turkey. Both emails contained some of the ‘best’ photos that my two fellow travelers. Many of the photos that each of them took were in the same [...]
Photo by Iceburn I was chatting to one reader last week about their photography and they shared that their main challenge in taking digital images what finding subjects to shoot because of the place where they lived. Here’s a snippet from what he said in our email conversation: “I live in a rural area of [...]
Photo by mnadi We often put the photos we take into frames as a way of displaying and drawing attention to our favorite photos – but there is another type of framing that you can do as you’re taking your shots that can be just as effective doing just the same thing! Framing is the [...]
Image by Mute* A number of weeks ago I wrote a tip on the portrait photography composition technique of Giving Your Subject Space to Look Into. A similar tip for action photography is to give moving subjects space to ‘move into’. Some call the space in front of a moving subject the ‘active space‘ in [...]
Get Free Weekly Digital Camera Tips via Email We’ve talked previously on a number of occasions about composing digital photographs for maximum effect when taking your shots but even the best photographers will often get back to their computers to view their photos and find that their composition is not ideal for one reason or [...]
Image by MoonGirlNYC In my last post on Using Focal Points in Photography I wrote the lines “Don’t confuse the viewer with too many competing focal points which might overwhelm the main focal point. Secondary points of interest can be helpful to lead the eye but too many strong ones will just clutter and confuse.” [...]
This tip builds on the previous one on Working the Lines in your Photography. Diagonal lines generally work well to draw the eye of an image’s viewer through the photograph. They create points of interest as they intersect with other lines and often give images depth by suggesting perspective. They can also add a sense [...]
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