Simple Tips to Achieve Better Looking Photos

Looking to tone your photography skills but don’t know where to start?  Want to bring some more creativity and liveliness to your photos?  Try out some of these easy tips for every camera, even if you’re a novice photographer starting out with a point and shoot camera.

Shooting vertical or horizontal pictures
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Use angles to create interesting compositions for your photographs

You’ve found the perfect leaf. It’s bright red and beautiful. It’s on a perfect background – not too distracting yet enough to keep the eye busy. But no matter how many shots you take, you just can’t make it look right. Something is missing.
What to do?
Try tilting your camera! Sometimes all it takes to turn [...]

Frame Your Photo with Natural Objects

Experimenting with different compositions is a great method for learning about photography and portraying subjects in fun, interesting ways. One technique that I still like to play around with is framing. Taking a normal object and finding something in the natural scenery to frame the image can really enhance the subject represented. You can use [...]

Outdoor Photography – Remember the “Golden Hours”

When taking landscape photos, the Golden Hours refer to the hour after the sun rises and the hour before the sun sets. The golden lighting that often accompanies this time is highly sought after in landscape photography. In addition, shadows and highlights cast by the angle of the sun offer much more texture and a [...]

Interesting macro photographs – Everyday items that make interesting macros

Every time I get a creative urge to take photographs, it’s always raining or dark out or other assorted inconveniences. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I always feel like there’s nothing to photograph, but that itch needs to be scratched!
Here is a list of everyday objects found around the house that make very [...]

Using blurriness in photos to your advantage

Photography is just a hobby for me, and my little Nikon camera is no match for all the expensive, professional cameras out there. As a result, my photographs sometimes come out blurry. If you have the same problem – don’t despair! Instead of cursing your lowly camera (it tries its best, it really does!), embrace [...]

For Interesting Photos Experiment with Different Angles

One of my favorite things about photography is the ability to see things from different angles or in different lights. It’s so satisfying to take ordinary objects and find new ways of capturing them. For me, shooting from different angles is the best technique to explore and discover with my camera. When I was studying [...]

Farmer’s Markets Are a Photographer’s Gold Mine

I’ve found that vegetable and flower markets offer amazing photo opportunities.  I mostly take travel photos but I’ve found that my farmer’s market photos usually come out looking pretty great.  The myriad colors and textures make for some really visually interesting and vibrant photos.

Reconnecting with Photography – Take a Tour of Your City

I used to be really big into photography but somehow I got busy and just stopped taking photos.  Determined to get back into photography, I picked up my camera the other day and wandered throughout San Francisco.  There is so much exploring and people watching to be had that a photo opportunity presented itself every [...]

Experiment with Photography – Use your vacation to improve your photo skills

 
I enjoy photography and have been intermittently committed to taking and developing photos.  Vacations are a great place to refine your photography skills and experiment with new types of photos for many reasons.  While on vacation, you are not only seeing new and exciting places but you have much more time to explore and tinker [...]