Share 3 photo tips for others here

[kirbinster]

How about everyone share three photo tips or tricks for everyone to learn from:

1.) When you have to shoot high ISO it is better to go slightly higher say ISO1200 rather than shoot at ISO 800 and under expose you will actually get less noise when property exposed at a higher ISO setting.

2.) If you are having focusing issues, check your depth of field. If you are shooting wide open (small f-stop number like f/1.8) at a close distance your depth of field that will be in focus can be less than one inch at times.

3.) Digital memory has gotten so cheap that it makes little sense to shoot at anything lower than the highest resolution your camera offers. You can always save smaller images later. Why risk taking a low resolution picture of that once in a lifetime shot.

[Saralonde]

1. Learn to look at your subject in new ways. Use different angles, aperture settings, etc. Experiment. Once you have a camera, digital photography is cheap, so shoot a lot.

2. You need to know the rules before you can break them. Take the time to learn about composition.

3. You don't need the most expensive equipment to take a good photograph. Have fun!

[lputman]

1. If shooting horizontal, turn the camera and shoot vertical too. Do the reverse if applicable. You might be surprised with the results.

2. If you are taking a really tight picture, zoom out or take a few steps back; again, you might be surprised with the results.

3. If relying on the camera for metering, take a shot over and under the camera metered settings; one more time, you might be surprised with the results.

[peach1828]

1. If you’re new to photography, challenge yourself by taking on a 30-day photo project where you shoot one photo a day for the next 30 days. It’s more manageable than Flickr’s Project-365, and it’ll help you try different photography techniques. Announce it and then post your results when you’re done. That’s going to help motivate you, most especially during days when the last thing you want to do is to pick up your camera after a long day at work or school.

2. When composing, take 3 steps to the right, and 3 steps to the left. It might give you the angle that you were looking for.

3. Memorize your camera. It saves you a lot of time when you know what to push and which button to hit. You can’t afford to fumble when the perfect shot comes along.

[inkista]

1. Always look around to see if there's something you can climb. Getting higher can be a good thing.

2. With zoo photography, wait and watch. A good half hour in front of any enclosure will yield you actual behavior to shoot. Just 'cause it's shooting fish in a barrel vs. wildlife photography still doesn't mean it's on demand.

3. Choose the moment, don't rely on burst shooting to nab it for you. Timing is another compositional element. Anticipate.

[candleman]

1. dont take pictures of your subjects.. take pictures of the light
(the tip that has changed my view of photography)

2. KNOW your camera and how to squeeze the most out of it.. regularly change things you've never used before and try teqhniques you've never tried.

3. think out of the box and use portrait, landscape & various angles.. AND get LOW.. its easier tham going high and it very often eliminates annyoing backgrounds.

[Taallyn]

1. Fill the frame.
2. Get close.
3. Look up, down and around.

[sk66]

1. Take the picture! You can't often wait to "get it right". If the subject hangs around, then refine.
2. "imagine" the picture, then make it happen.
3. Try to "see" what it is in the image that is evoking your interest/emotion and focus on that.
(i.e. sometimes it's just "color" and wide might work, sometimes its "detail" and "fill the frame" is better) Often the mind "sees" many little details individually, but almost simultaneously, and a picture which focuses on "just one detail" works much better than a picture of "all of the details". The brain won't sort it when viewing a photo (that's where "fill the frame" comes from)

[private]

1. Don't be afraid of_____
2. Enter Photo contests - it does not matter if you lose b/c you win by gaining experience
3. Tell people WHY you like their photo - it'll help you when you are taking your photos.

[k9mom]

1. If shooting outdoors in the sunlight, take off your sunglasses before looking thru the viewfinder, else you'll find your shots over-exposed (Yes, I really did do that at my first afternoon baseball game that I took my camera to. Duh.)

2. Always check your in-camera white balance setting at the start of a new shoot (I once shot a very important outdoor event - a public rally - without checking my WB. Alas, it had been set to "tungsten" from the prior day's indoor shoot, so all my shots were BLUE. No big deal if you shoot in RAW, but on that day I was using a P&S that didn't have RAW as an option)

3. Know clearly what your subject is and compose your shot to best exploit, expose and highlight said subject.