Everyone can capture a moment, but the pro captures the best shot. As photography is defined, it is the art of capturing light using a camera and creating an image. The better we became in taking photographs, the better the photographs we take. A pro photographer should know how to take professional photos way better than an amateur.
Here are the top 12 weird photography tips to address your quest in taking better photos. In these various photography tips and techniques, you will have more thoughts and strategies in getting the best shot you want.
- Break the ice, drop the jokes. If you want a more natural beaming smile, you’ve got to be joking. It is way better than commanding “Smile”.
- Break the Rules. I know you have been reading the standards, standing norms or even checking and reading manuals. Once in a while, it is satisfying to break or bend some rules including the Rule of Thirds. Learn from past experiences, create your own style. Do some new techniques. Have the best time shooting your masterpiece!
- Stop zooming in. When your subject is quite a distance from you, zooming in might be a little bit tempting. Need advice? Don’t. Zooming in will only make your image appear blurry, grainy, or pixelated. Here’s what you should do instead: get close as long as it is human. If it is an animal especially wild one then keep the distance. You can also station from a default distance and do the crop.
- Using flash is better during well-lit spaces. Camera flash at daylight improves to soften dark shadows behind or beneath the subject. During the night, the flash making dark shots has a much sharper contrast looking invasive and uneven.
- Bring a prop. You might be risking the focus to your main subject but it’s worth the risk. This actually gives you a sense of story and make it a perfect partner to the subject you photograph. It gives the essence of creating a point of interest and enhances the shots even.
- Alter your perspective. We have mentioned above to break some rules. This tip is included with some photo poses ideas. Most angles are taken with camera et eye level, now if you think of another angle that might give a little bit of taste, your portrait will give a “WOW” factor. By saying that, you can get close to the ground and shoot up your subject or shoot down by getting up high. This will surely evoke interest form your viewers.
- Use burst mode and take candids. Strategic posing is best for memories. However, candid shots is best on how to take good pictures of people, doing things that are way more intriguing especially during events like parties and family occasions. Candid photos capture genuine emotions. By saying this, take many photos or use burst mode especially when your target is a group of people. This way, you will have more options to choose the best one. Through burst mode, you can capture several photos in a quick session.
- Explore a panoramic view. Up in a mountain high, panoramic might be the best option to capture the long-range of terrain. But did you know you can be in two places at one photo? Yes, the panoramic camera tricks are your best bud. Get your subject moving and posing in the frame several times while your panoramic is slowly moving. Remember to start from the far left frame and slowly move to the right. If you think that a panoramic shot is only good horizontally, you are wrong. To create a vertical panoramic shot, rotate your phone and hold it in landscape orientation. Pan vertically by either starting from low to high or high to low. Imagine doing this in waterfalls, it will be fun!
- Work with your shutter speed. There are so many ways to play with your shutter speed and consider it a camera tricks. Let’s start by lowering the shutter speed to capture your main subject in motion. Use the shutter speed with two steps lower than the usual. Focus your vision on your subject, with your finger slowly getting close to locking your focus. Capture the photo and pan the camera as the subject move. You can also use your shutter in jumping shots. Through the help of burst mode, freeze the moment with a faster shutter speed to create more of a floating effect.
- Use a turkey pan as one of your beauty tricks. This one is called a beauty dish. This cheap bright idea is good for portrait shots that give a flattering lighting effect on the subject. The color reflected from the aluminum and intensity of light focused on the subject adds more to the effect. To do this, create a hole in the pan, add more aluminum in front and insert the bulb or flash inserted.
- Take many photos as much as you want, every day. It might sound desperate but to be able to take better photos is to practice and hone your skills. Spend hours practicing with your camera. Do some experimentation and discover your style on how to take professional photos.
- Drop of water as your macro lens on your phone. This is another trick that you might consider how to take good photos with phone. By the use of a straw, drop a small droplet of water on the lens of your phone to magnify the image. The droplet won’t run off when you pick up the phone and capture the moment.