Digital Photography - How To Take Professional Studio Pictures With Your Standard Camera! Digital Photography - How To Take Professional Studio Pictures With Your Standard Camera!
By Louise Woodcock
Would you like to make extra money selling photographic portraits? Picturing real estate for porperty agents? Create your own coffee table book? Well, all you require is to take reasonable, good quality, professional looking photographs time and time again! Here is how.
The first thing is to obtain a digital camera. Buy the best you can afford. Buy the highest mega pixels facility you can. Mine is six million mega pixels. I get very good results.
The next thing is to understand: the studio standard is all about the angle of the shot coupled with the lighting. By all means experiment with a variety of coloured and white backgrounds and different lighting schemes indoors, but I get my best results every time outdoors where the light surrounds evenly. A bright but sunless day is best of all.
Chose a background of contrasting colour to your subject. Take several pictures of the same thing from a variety of angles and take time to edit these simply on your computer. Clip any unnecessary background. Keep the background simple by avoiding confusion. Avoid stark shadow, keep the lighting subtle and even. Be dynamic but not overly artistic. Let the main object leap from an unobtrusive background.
Your most important learning curve towards good photography is to create a scrapbook of images that please you, which you cut out of papers, books and magazines. Jot a note under each to state what is pleasing about the effect. What angle? What background? What style and imagery? What lighting? Heavy, light, indoors, outdoors? Look equally for portraits, landscapes and objects.
Now look online and use 'save picture as' to build up a folder of photos which please and inspire you online. Remember, what looks appealing to your naked eye may not work at all as a photo. A great example of this would be a tiger in a cage. The tiger will be lost in the monotony of the foreground cage wiring. You need to gradually learn to 'frame' the picture in your mind's eye long before you reach for your camera.
Take a lot of pictures on a wide variety of subjects and take the same shot several times too. I have taken tens of thousands of digital photos but I rarely take a really excellent picture with just one click! I have to work on carefully positioning and framing the object, and choosing an appropriate angle and the distance from the lens. Photography is an art. And practice makes perfect. So kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince! Flowers are perfect for photography, and animals perhaps the most difficult subject because they constantly move. It takes me a score of pictures to achieve even one reasonable photograph of one of my cats! Persevere and you will improve with every shot!
Be careful to frame the subject well, choose the correct zoom, angle and exposure, consider the light and possible shading, work on your backgrounds, be prepared to experiment and be prepared for scores of second rate attempts to attain those few dazzling masterpieces! You will be very proud of your best pictures! Today, a digital camera places a pallete and paintbrush in the hand of even the most inartistic person. So try, try, and try again, and be ready to enjoy yourself! Photography is a pastime for both recreation and business. Frame and sell your best efforts, or have them created as merchandise. Take your camera everywhere, encourage people to sit for portraits, believe in yourself. Be confident. Be debonair. Be flashy!
Louise Woodcock Piano Teacher, Success Motivator and Internet Business Strategist. You can discover more about me at http://ZowocoMarketing.com
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