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8 Tips & Tricks for Photographing Children
Photographing children can be pretty challenging! Especially so if you are photographing your own children, since they would rather be doing ANYTHING else rather than sitting you with and having a camera thrust in their face. (And it can be the same if you are the hired photographer too!) I have had my fair share of pouty faces and cheesy grins over the years, along with some not-so-awesome shots of the back of their head as they are running away, and of course, the images that capture a beautiful, natural expression....but they are totally out of focus!
In future posts I'm going to be giving you some specific tips and strategies for working with different age groups, but to kick us off, here are my top 8 tips and tricks for photographing children.
6 Ways to Become More Creative with Your Photography
Photography is a meeting of the technical and artistic. We are often focused more on the technical side of our craft, learning about our equipment, which settings to use, how to use editing software and so on, but often we don't set ourselves the same time for learning or nurturing our creativity. What a mistake!
So why aren't we taking the same to time to grow creatively as we are technically? Maybe because most people feel that you are either born with a creative mind or not, rather than it being a tool that you can learn and practice, just like any other skill! Whilst learning the tools of your trade is undoubtedly valuable (we need to know HOW to create the vision in our head into a photograph, which takes technical skill) maybe spending a little bit of time nurturing our creativity wouldn't go a miss every once in a while :)
Go Beyond the Rule of Thirds with Golden Compositions
Unless you are brand spanking new to photography, you will have heard about using the rule of thirds to compose your images. It's a useful guideline that helps you move away from having your subject slap bang in the middle of frame, by giving you a grid that shows you where to position your subjects. (If you haven't used that yet, I suggest you start by reading all about it here, then come back to this!)
If you are still reading this, then it means you are ready to move on from the rule of thirds! Yay!
The good news is there are more "guides" that we can use to compose our images, and these are called the golden compositions.
How To Choose Your Camera Settings in Manual Mode (with examples!)
One of the things I get asked a lot is how to choose your settings when shooting in Manual Mode on your DSLR. I understand that it can seem a little bit overwhelming at first - you are used to the camera making all of these decisions for you, so it can be difficult to even know where to start! Never fear though, as today, I'm going to walk you through the steps for choosing your settings in manual mode, and give you some example photos (along with the camera settings too) so you can see it all together.
Which Camera Lens is Right For You?
Buying yourself a new lens - particularly if this is your first purchase away from the kit lens - can be an overwhelming experience! It's an important decision for you to make too, since your lens choice plays a critical role in making sure you images look the way you want them to! Unfortunately, there is no one single lens that will suit everybody, all of the time, so which lens is best definitely comes down to personal choice.
With that in mind, I've come up with 8 questions that you can ask yourself before you buy a lens to determine which is the best lens choice for YOU, and help you narrow down all the options that are out there.
My Project 365 2016 Photo Book
Last year I created a photo book of all my Project 365 photos from 2015, and I cannot tell you how much I LOVE it! After looking through it at the end of last year, it really renewed my motivation to continue with the project for another year. So, for 2016, I'm doing pretty much the same thing again, but I thought I'd share again in case any one else would like to do something similar with their 365 photos.
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It's been quite a few years now since I made the switch from Aperture Priority Mode to shooting in Manual Mode, and it was one of the BEST things I ever did to improve my photography skills.
It was like a whole new world opened up to me, and I started TRULY understanding exposure, and in turn, getting the images that I wanted.
Of course, there was a lot to learn, and there are some things I wish I had known before I started!
So, here are 10 things about shooting in Manual Mode that you might just wish you knew…