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Photo Composition – Linear Perspective

Using linear perspective in your photo composition would add depth and impression of shape, structure or sense of distance. The photography basics of using perspective will help to enhance your photograph. What you see in the picture is only a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional world. Thus by inclusion of perspective in your photography composition, you create a more dynamic scene in your picture. Continue reading Photo Composition – Linear Perspective

Photo composition – follow the eyes

Another very effective way of creating focal point in photography is to make use of a person’s gaze in your photo composition. Continue reading Photo composition – follow the eyes

Photo composition – focal point photography

Sometimes a scene can be cluttered with no sense of subject matter, or it could be a plain scenery making it very difficult to make a good photo composition. You need to pick out something in the picture to centre the attention or what you call the focal point photography. Continue reading Photo composition – focal point photography


Photo composition – the four key points

Besides looking at the rule-of-thirds for photo composition, you can use the four key point intersection of the vertical and horizontal of the imaginary lines for the placement of subjects. Continue reading Photo composition – the four key points

Basic photography composition – rule of thirds

One of the fundamental photography basics rule that every photographer should know is the rule of thirds. Once, I chuckled when viewing an instructional video tutorial about learning photography when the instructor advised us to avoid putting the subject dead centre in the picture frame because it is deadly! Truly this is the rule to live by most of the time! Continue reading Basic photography composition – rule of thirds

Basic photography composition technique

So you got yourself a brand new digital camera, so let’s go take some photos! Without some basic photography composition technique, you find that most pictures turn out to be uninteresting. You remedy that just by learning photography basics composition techniques. There are many rules, but the rules are not the be all and end all, must follow or die type of rules. They can be broken to achieve some other interesting effect. Continue reading Basic photography composition technique

Basic digital SLR holding camera technique

Basic digital photography technique of holding an SLR camera in order to obtain good clear images, you need to hold the camera as still and steady as possible. Continue reading Basic digital SLR holding camera technique

Digital Photography Creative Mode Zone

Using the photography basics mode is simple and easy but it does not provide much control as to how you would like your shot to be taken. In addition, the photos are captured only in jpeg files. The creative mode zone will allow for more control as to how a picture is to be taken. You may render the photo into RAW, JPG, or both. Do note that RAW files are rather big size and you would need very high capacity storage media in order to take many photos. Continue reading Digital Photography Creative Mode Zone

Digital Photography Basics Mode Zone

The mode dial basic zone is a quick way for taking photography basics pictures. There is no need to fiddle with the ISO, white balance, focus points, shutter speed and aperture f-stop settings. See a scene, select the appropriate basic zone mode, and snap away! Continue reading Digital Photography Basics Mode Zone

A few words about memory cards

Memory cards for digital SLR and digital cameras has come a long way with various types in the market. Some have gone the way of digital museums as they are being surpassed and replaced by better memory card formats. One thing they have all in common, is the way you should prepare the card for use with your digital camera. Continue reading A few words about memory cards