Simple Photography Guide and Tips Better Digital Pictures
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Macro Button - Push this button to take all of your close up photos. |
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Portrait - Create sharp focus on your subject while blurring the background. |
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Night Scene - Take pictures against sunsets. The flash lights the subject and a slower shutter brightens the background. |
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Movie Mode - Create movies with this setting |
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Landscape - Take pictures of mountains, beaches, and similar landscape |
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Stitch Assistant - Take overlapping pictures and stich them together for panoramic scenes (be sure to overlap pictures) |
Indoors
Indoor digital photography is tricky because of lighting issues and small spaces. While I highly reccomend the Flashclip for indoors, here are some other tips.
Birthday Parties - Keep the lights on (or at least dim). The light will help you keep your subject in the photo
Research - Often you can replace a copy machine with your
digital camera. Press the Macro ()
button, select a black and white mode, and use your flash. If the flash washes
out the picture, diffuse it with a FlashClip or similar device. Higher resolution
will typically give you a cleaner picture, but a decent picture can be produced
at 2 megapixels if needed.
Weddings - If you haven't shot a wedding before, it is probably best to leave it to the professionals. If it is just for fun and practice, get a high quality SLR, flash bracket, external flash and diffuser, and lots of extra batteries. Plan your shots ahead, and shoot in RAW mode.
Ebay Pictures - Find an area with natural indirect lighting.
Set your camera up with a tripod, and grab a pillow and a sheet for a background.
Use the Macro ()
button, and set your white balance manually (check your manual for this important
step) and take the picture at an angle.
Outdoors
For the best outdoor photography, be sure you bring a tripod. Yes it can be a hassle, but if you are going to carry a camera anyway you might as well carry the right equipment to take the picture. Generally, it is best to take your outdoor pictures in the morning and in the late afternoon.
Scenic - The Landscape button ()
or setting will work best for scenic pictures (mountains, fields, nature,
etc.).
Backlit pictures - Especially with people in the foreground
and a sunset for the background, are best taken with the night scene setting
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