Ten Tips For Taking a Great Photograph

Contents

• What is photography?

• Why do we need photography?

• 10 tips for a great picture

• Conclusion

• References

What’s photography?

• It is writing with light.

• It is the instantaneous capture of a moment in time, never to be repeated.

Why do we need photography?

• Recalling memories

• Studying

• Presentation

• Celebration

• Advertisement

10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle • Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time • Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Look your subject in the eye

• Hold your camera at the subject’s eye level

• Stoop down on their level to take the picture

• Not necessary for subject to look directly into the camera, the eye level will create a personal and attractive feeling by itself.

Look your subject in the eye

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10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Use a plain background

• Before taking a picture, check the area behind your subject

Use a plain background

Distracting background

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10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Use flash outdoors

• Using your flash to light on the face to reduce the shadow on the object’s face

Use flash outdoors

Subject is dark

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10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Move in close

• Move closer to get more details from the subject ( You can see the subject clearer)

Move in close

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10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Move focal target away from the middle

• Bring your picture to left or right side by moving your subject away from the middle of the background.

Move it from the middle

Boring picture

Better

10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Lock the focus

• Lock the focus to create a sharp picture of off-center subjects– Center the subject– Press the shutter button half way down– Re-frame your picture– Finish by pressing the shutter button all the

way down

Lock the focus

Subject is not in focus

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10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Know your flash's range

• Pictures taken beyond the maximum flash range will be too dark

• For many cameras, picture should be taken only ten feet or about four steps away

Know your flash's range

Without flash

With flash

10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Watch the light’s position and time

• Great light makes great pictures. Study about time and the effect of light in your picture– Morning

• 6 am to 9 am (sun rising at 6:30)

– Evening• 3 pm to 6 pm (sun setting at 5:30)

Watch the light

Dark

Better

10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Take some vertical pictures

• Many subjects will look better in a vertical picture. (Not always horizontal)

Take some vertical pictures

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10 tips for a great picture• Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move focal target away from the middle• Lock the focus • Know your flash's range • Watch the light’s position and time• Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director

Be a picture director

• Look at your picture carefully and then improve it. Take extra minutes to think about putting more ideas into imaging the picture such as choose location, add props and do something to make picture attracts people. (Create your own style in taking picture)

Be a picture director

Boring Better

Conclusion

• Are you ready to take a photograph?

References

1• Title of the article: Photography• Author: Science and Technology Encyclopedia• Latest update:2007• Downloaded date: Mar 2007• http:// www.answers.com/photography• Copyright © 2007 Answers Corporation. All rights reserved.

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