Photography Tips of the Week - Twenty-Five

Welcome to week 25 of the "Tips of the Week" series where I try to gather up any and all simply fascinatin' stuff from around the world of photography! We have all sorts of tips this week and not just one, but two! Yes! Count them... two videos that should give you some ideas for your own photography. Some good information here regarding lens and the different ways they "see" things. The lenses in your eyes have the capability of almost infinitely adjusting to their surroundings and what you w...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Twenty-Four

Well there are lots of tips this week from around those internets so rather than me rabbit on and on... as I do! Let's get into the good stuff! Shooting Through Glass First up a tutorial on a subject that rarely gets dealt with and something we have probably all come across in some form or another. Shooting something that is behind glass or even shooting from behind glass (think moving car / airplane etc) can present a few problems to the average user and the result of those problems only bec...

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Photography Tips of the Week - Twenty-Three

Softly Softly Catchee Monkey... or at least gets the shot Probably one of the greatest abilities anyone can bring to the table when it comes to photography is that of patience. In fact patience combined with a sense of optimism are two ingredients you simply must have (or at least develop!) to get great shots. It doesn't matter whether you are snapping away at a children's party, a friends wedding, a corporate event or a day at the zoo. The ability to stop, wait... and wait... and wait some ...

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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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