Huffington Post Blogs
The “Photo Guys” blog with the Huffington Post
Composing Great Photographs Using the Rule of Thirds.
How do we know when we have a great composition in a photograph? When we look at great works of art or photographs we’ve discovered a sense balance and harmony that exist within these images. There are key principles in composition that guide us to creating better images. One of these is called the “Rule of Thirds”.
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Tis the Season for Great Pictures at Night.
This holiday season, and any other night for that matter, is a great time to use a simple feature on our digital cameras, called Night Scene Mode. With trees and houses decorated with colorful lights and adornments, taking a picture of them with our cameras in the Auto Mode will not bring us the magic of the scene in front of us. So, we encourage everyone to be courageous and withdraw from the “Holy Grail” of Auto Mode, and get the gift of a better image.
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Catalog and Improve Your Images “Workflow”.
The summer is over and vacations are wonderful memories, so don’t let the photos of your summer, live in your camera, as Jpegs. Your digital camera is sitting on your table loaded with great images, as if it is saying… “OK, I have all these images in me, what are you going to do now!” You can create a simple “Work-Flow” for our digital images by utilizing catalog/editing programs, like Picasa and iPhoto.
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Shooting From the Hip: 5 Great Tips on Photographing Children.
- Know Their Point of View – Literally, our kids’ eyes are just about as high as our hips, so why do most of us photograph them while we are standing tall?! The best way to get a great shot of that perfect expression is the get down onto their level. This forces you to see their world, making for a more intimate photograph.
- Get Personal – Getting in close helps us capture a personal moment. Imagine them looking at you, through a curl of hair just over an eye, or their hand holding their favorite toy. These details, tell their stories in a more interesting way.
How Do We Buy the Best Camera for Our Needs?
We get questions like this from family and friends all the time, asking us how to buy a good camera or “which one takes the best shot”. Or if it has the most Megapixels, is that the best one? Or good cameras should cost more…etc., etc.
And camera commercials today just express a “glossy” sensation to cameras using celebrities to sell them, to lead us to consider them when buying and to get their latest version into our minds; and so we ask each other… what do you think of (fill in the blank)?
But do we ask, if that’s really right for us?
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Why You Can’t Trust Auto-Mode for Beach Photos (Video)
Can your beach vacation images look better?
Yes they can!
A little knowledge and one change on your camera will make a world of difference. When we go to a beach, we’re confronted with a lot of sunlight, reflections and a wide contrast between lights and darks. Images appear too bright, or the skin tones are too light. Shadows are black making the contrast too hard. And many times our family and friends are squinting as well.
Today’s “point and shoot” cameras are marketed to the public as complete automated devices, designed to remove our creative decision making, when taking a photograph.
So we have to ask: “if Auto-Mode is so great, then why do manufacturers still give us manual settings?”
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