Photography Tips of the Week - Twenty-Two

If You Can See Something Strange When You Are Shooting In Camera Stop And Fix It Don't allow an attitude of "shoot now and fix it with software later" to creep into your overall mindset of taking photos. It is true that some mistakes and imperfections can be fixed or improved in post production but that fact comes with an inbuilt trap. It can mean that you begin to abandon the process of photography and adopt the process of software correction. The pro's don't look at it this way. The pro's...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Twenty-One

Ask Permission To Get In Close. It’s Much Better Than Trying To Shoot People Farther Away Following on from the tip regarding using your feet to zoom in rather than than using your camera's zoom, take a deep breath and approach people to ask if you can move closer to take a shot. Now and then you may get rejected and that's fine, just ask someone else! You may be surprised at how many people are quite OK with having their photo taken in public. Of course it is easier at a family or work funct...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Twenty

Gather up Some of Your Really Bad Shots... and Study Them Carefully! No, this isn't an exercise in punishing yourself! We often flippantly use the term, "learn from your mistakes" but we rarely think of that in terms of a process rather than just a reaction. "My boyfriend dumped me so all men are pigs!" You see that is not really analytically inspecting the situation and subsequently learning from it. It's just reacting TO it. Look carefully at the images you have taken that didn't work and ...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Eighteen

Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter If you are shooting people and simply take snaps of them representing nothing in particular all you are doing is creating a document. You might as well just write a note to yourself that "George was in the living room." Take a moment to identify your feelings towards the subject or observe the subject's feelings towards themselves, their environment or others around them. In other words look at what you are seeing and "see" somethi...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Seventeen

When Photographing Men in Formal Surroundings Tell Them What to do With Their Hands Most guys can deal reasonably well with how to act or behave in a formal setting such as a wedding, party or even corporate event. Of course there will always be exceptions and that's why wedding planners have "that table" way up the back of the room! What most men have great difficulty with is posing formally for photographs within those types of settings. As the photographer in situations such as these you ...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Sixteen

Don't Be a Wombat. A Wombat Eats Roots and Leaves Very often you get some of the best shots especially of people, after the event. This is especially pertinent to wedding and party photography for the purposes of blackmail... however I digress. Given you have good intentions you can get some great shots at this time because people tend to relax after there is an agreed end to whatever the formal proceedings were. They begin to forget your presence and also are by now accustomed to y...

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