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One liner photo tips – please add yours
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Genie (Janine) was looking for some help on a couple of images and it dawned on me that we pick up one liner tips along the way but there isn’t a location for them. So here we go – by the way these aren’t hard fast rules, just things that you’d hear to help. Please add yours.
>Shooting below 1/60sec usually requires stabilisation with a tripod
>When shooting children or animals getting down to eye level helps composition.
>When using a telephoto it’s advisable to have the shutter speed 1.5 times the focal length – ie, at 400mm use a shutter speed of 1/600 sec (400 x 1.5)>Always check your viewfinder for anything that should not be there (fix it first)
> Buy a Hot shoe level to keep those horizons straight
> Move your subject from the dead center place it off to the left or right
> Best telephoto lens is your feet, GET IN CLOSEShould this be in beginners section?? maybe people will visit there more
Carpenter work by the maxim “measure, measure again, and then cut”. Compose, re-compose, then shoot.
If all your images are seriously underexposed, try removing your lens cap… ;)Rob.
Must have heard this a million times in the past 12 months…
Buy the best you can afford.
Alan,
This is a great thread. Since you told me about the rule of shooting below 1/60sec my images have become much sharper. I have become married to the tripod. That has been one of the best tips I have received.
Janine
1) Treat the shutter release button like the trigger of a Gun . . .
Dont press too hard too fast.
2) Always check your equipment before you leave on a photo shoot . . .
Better to be looking at it than looking for it.
I went out on a shoot about 6 months ago after a long break from photography
and copped after half way through the day I had no flash card in the camera
and no spares, feckin taepot or what!I’m still a beginner here but here’s my experiences:
Buy the best tripod you can if you shoot landscapes. Buy cheap, buy twice.
Lenses hold their value pretty well, camera bodies depreciate.
Take more pictures. Good ones, bad ones, just take them.
Post your shots up for comments and criticism. Put your ego aside and its a very quick way to learn.
Ask questions, even the really daft ones. We all have at some point!
RTFM. I’m still finding cool stuff my camera can do way better than me.
Useful accessories: (for me cos I like landscapes) filters (ND grads and circ polariser) and remote shutter release (my cheap 7dayshop version is fine) and a cleaning kit. A bood bag to carry them all comfortably is useful, esp one with a tripod carryier
Learn the basics, then break the rules!
And one from experience; if going on a trip, charge your batteries, or bring your charger, preferably both. I missed some stunning shots due to no juice left, and it was heartbreaking!
Sorry, more than a snappy one liner, but there we go!
Lens hoods float.
Don’t shoot with a tripod/monopod in a lightning storm.
Plastic bags are very effective rain covers.
Buy a memory card wallet thing.
Don’t fill your memory card.
If your battery is near dead, and you have no charger, put battery on a warm radiator for twenty minutes.
Remove lens cap.
If the picture is’nt good enough, your not close enough. (not sure where I read that, but it’s good!)
If you want to take interesting pictures, stand in front of interesting things. (or be very inventive).
Merv.
Above all else, expression.
There’s only one main light.
Select the subject of the picture.
Walk out, zoom in.Si
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