Two ways to improve your photography

Your photography can be improved in many different ways and below are two things to pay attention to:

Watch the weather
The weather can make a huge difference to you. For a start you need to protect your equipment from rain. A little light rain is probably not too big a deal for most camera’s but a torrential downpour can permanently wreck your equipment and you don’t want to get caught out! Make sure you have a waterproof place to store your camera if there is a risk of heavy rain.

The weather is also important to the lighting of your picture. If there is little light such as dawn, dusk or overcast days then you may need to up your ISO or use a tripod. An overcast day will give even lighting which can be advantageous if you are photographing people because they won’t be squinting or half in shadow and half in light. An overcast day however may not be so good for landscape photography as the light has no drama to it, whereas a shaft of sunlight breaking through the clouds to light a lush green field can make all the difference to an otherwise average picture. A good time to take landscape pictures is early in the morning or late in the afternoon when the shadows are long and the sun is lighting from the side – this light is more interesting than when the sun is direct overhead.

Watching the weather can alert you to when there is likely to be spectacular sunsets, snow or other conditions which lend themselves to stunning photography.

Be selective with your focus
Don’t always put the object of focus in the middle of the frame. For example, rather than putting a person in the middle of a lovely hill scene, why not put them to the side of the frame so that you can see more of the hills too.

Try not to always use the automatic exposure settings in auto mode. Give Aperture Priority a go if you have a camera that has this option. Using a low f-stop will allow only a small section of your picture to be in sharp focus, therefore giving it more priority and impact. Try a portrait with just your subject’s eyes in focus and compare it to one taken on Auto mode which will have selected a higher f-stop.

Hopefully these tips will help your technique and planning and lead to better pictures.

Rebecca Swallowcliffe has been interested in photography and writing articles for the internet for a number of years. You can read her latest articles at dog clothes it is all about Chihuahua dog clothes I hope you enjoy it.