When your out and about a lot with the camera, particularly on a trip of a couple of weeks, and continually taking images day after day it’s easy to forget where they were taken.
Category: Quick Tips
Quick Tip 8: Graduated Neutral Density Filters – An Essential
One of the most difficult things in photography is dealing with the wide exposure range that exists in many scenes.
Quick Tip 7: Think in Series of Images
All too often we are searching for the ultimate shot, singular, instead of working with a series of photographs.
Quick Tip 6: Keep Your Bag Clean
Quick Tip 5: Use a Smaller Memory Card
Which memory card would you put in your camera out of the two above? It seems an obvious choice, the 4.0GB. Not always, think again.
Quick Tip 4: Get The Most From Your Camera
1. Read the manual
Spend a few nights tucked up with the manual – Some are pretty dense and are not exactly user friendly and I would recommend buying a specific guide for your model. I wouldn’t be without the Magic Lantern Guides written for the Nikons by Simon Stafford. Well laid out, clear, concise, to the point and simply invaluable.
Quick Tip 3: Take Better Pictures With Less Equipment
All too often we’re led to believe that the more equipment you carry with you on any photographic trip the better pictures you will take. In many cases the reverse is true. Photography is essentially a simple act complicated by an aggressive consumer industry that needs to keep selling new and ‘improved’ equipment.
Quick Tip 2: Changing the angle of View
Such a simple tip for producing arresting images is to change your angle of view. Most photographers seem to see the world from 5’5″ and pretty straight on.
Quick Tip 1: More from your Monopod
A simple technique to photograph new and exciting angles. By using a monopod and the self-timer setting on your camera you can extend your imaging into places otherwise impossible to work from.