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Learn Digital Photography: Fast Track Your Photography
July 3rd, 2009 | 
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Learning digital photography in our instant society is only possible by applying the basic principles of good photography. Digital is another tool and there is no real fast way of doing this. BUT… If you are prepared to follow these six quick photography principles you’re on the road to learning digital photography fast. And I really mean fast. So here goes.
1. Choose your subject carefully.
This is the centrepiece of your photo. Make sure you identify a suitable subject and focus on this. Not negotiable. If subject is not clearly identifiable your photo will be below average.
2. Place you subject intelligently.
Divide your image into thirds vertically and horizontally. Imagine 2 lines across and 2 lines down. Where these lines intersect place your subject on one of these points. If you have an horizon in the image, line it up with one of the 2 horizontal lines.
3. Get closer to your subject.
Most times the subject is what you want to remember about the scene you are recording. So get as much of it in your photo. This is especially so with family photos. Have smaller groups of people shot closer to the camera.
Learn Digital Photography – 4 Tips to Avoid Background Disturbance
Background has always been a challenge for a photographer when they are taking pictures and this condition is even more prominent among the digital photography beginners. If you are not careful, the background is going to steal the lime light from the subjects and distract your viewers’ attention. The following tips are to show you how you can avoid common background disturbance.
1. Move the subject
Have you ever had the experience that you thought the background will be perfect for the photo shoot but it looks awkward when you place your subjects in it? Some thing just doesn’t feel right.
When that happens, you can move the subject around to see whether it gives the right picture. Sometime you can change the feeling of the pictures by moving the subject around.
But what if you can’t move the subject?
2. Change the angle
If that is the case, probably you want to consider changing the shooting angle. That means you will want to move around your subjects, circling your subjects, taking picture from down to up or get high to shoot down to the subjects.
Besides omitting the awkward background from your pictures, shooting from different angle can also help to you to get different perspective of your subjects. You might be able to capture something astounding under the specific angle and background.