Taking Better Photographs – Simple And Effective Ways To Sharpen Your Skills
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May-18-2010
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Accomplished photographers all exhibit special and well developed visual skills. They often recognize unique perspectives on seemingly everyday events or objects and capture their own views in order to preserve them and share with others.
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Accomplished photographers all exhibit special and well developed visual skills. They often recognize unique perspectives on seemingly everyday events or objects and capture their own views in order to preserve them and share with others. Of course, this is generally how their own passion for photography began, long before they consciously learned to explore and develop their skills and their art. Today, anyone can take a shapshot of a flower, but a photographer’s eye is finely tuned and sensitive and literally fascinated with the lighting and details and results in an image that enhances the beauty or highlights a particularly unique aspect of the flower or its surroundings. With each and every shot, a promising visual artist will begin to notice subtle yet interesting aspect of a subject and embark on a path to become an experienced professional artist.
Some are attracted to nature or have a special aptitude for people and emotions while others some might be into cars, bikes or even gadgets. Whatever your interest, it will appear in the pictures you take. But just like every other profession, photographers need motivation and inspiration in order to not only learn their craft, but to reliably produce “near perfect” results.
Whether you are an accomplished photographer or just someone who wants to sharpen your visual skills, here are some interesting ideas. Even the seasoned professional can benefit from taking an afternoon off from regular work and exploring the world around them with a fresh and renewed perspective. It can be an invigorating photographic experience.
Markets: Markets are the perfect location for anyone who has become bored with those everyday subjects or has run out of ideas about what to shoot. Armed with your camera, walk along a busy street or go to a farmer’s or flea market. You will find hundreds of items on display along with vendors doing their thing. Each one will inspire you to take more photographs and as you take multiple images of the same subject, your focus and interpretive skills will develop and improve…with each and every study steadily making you into a better photographer.
Subjects: If you think that people photography might be an area I which to develop your skills, focus on people in your practice work. Most people love to be photographed, but be up front before photographing strangers, few if any will object if they are involved in something public. If you think that you have a special skill with kids and are fascinated watching a child’s expression change, or in doing family portraits, most new parents are proud of their children and can’t get enough pictures. They will quickly welcome someone who will give them unique images of their new child.
Workshops: You will find lots of photographic workshop and attending a weekend workshop on photography is one the best ways to learn more about photography and capturing unique images. Besides, interacting with professionals and savvy veterans is a good opportunity to obtain tips, experiment and improve your skills. With photography, it’s more learning on the job training, rather than book learning. So, the more pictures you take, the more your chances you have for honing your visual skills.
Photo walk: Anything done in a group is bound to be good; similarly, those interested in photography can join a local photo walk group and go on short photo expeditions. They often bound to choose a specific urban area, and walk around taking shots of anything they find interesting. In the process, photographic ideas and thoughts are exchanged, and you will learn more about your camera or how a certain object will look better when shot from a different angle, and so on.
Gallery and exhibition: Take every opportunity to visit a formal photography exhibition, as they are the perfect inspiration for any budding photographer. The techniques and visual interpretations in the photographs displayed will represent valuable lessons for your own work. The examples of lighting, position of subject, proximity, flash, and even the lenses used may be just what you need to enhance your own photographic skills and take your work to a whole new level.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Taking Better Photographs – Simple And Effective Ways To Sharpen Your Skills_19173.aspx
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Author Resource :
David Drum is head of Business Development at H&H Color Lab in Kansas City, Missouri. Starting his professional career as a process engineer at Xerox and Motorola, David moved to the professional imaging industry in 1993. David has worked as Technical Support Manager, Production Manager, Lean Manufacturing Manager, and IT Director before assuming his present role.
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Professional Photo Lab, Professional Color Lab, Photographer, color lab, colorlab, Professional Photolabs, Marketing Ideas,
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Arts and Entertainment
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Arts and Entertainment
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