Tips, Question and Answers

Any questions ? have any tips?......

Best tip I can give, and its a pretty obvious one but people tend to forget is...
When you have finished a photo session, clean lens, empty card and charge battery so its ready for when you grab it next.

Don’t be static, What ever your subject moving a to your left or right a few feet my make all the difference.

Good tip Ghost!
may I add to that, different angles, don't always shoot from standing, also with animals and children get down to their level or below.

Huge capacity memory cards are great for some, but personally I prefer to use 4/5 1gb cards and spread my photos out across all of them, that way should you use or damage a card all your photos are not lost.

Secondly, experiment, experiment, experiment! Dont be afraid to rattle off hundreds of pics and have a play around with aperture, depth of fields, shutter speeds etc, you will be surprised what effects you can create!

Question

Lou, I see you have taken some stunning photos of the fish in your tank..
Do you / anyone have any tips on taken photos when the subjects the other side of glass?

Well I photographed them in the evening, so no natural light to cause reflections.
If you are using flash, I found if you photograph at an angle, whether it be from the side or below, doesn't work so well from above.
Obviously the other way is to use tripod and no flash, but of course that is no good if you are snapping something that moves and you have low light!

Hope this helps Ghost

Get the lens as close to the glass as you can minimises any 'bouncing' off the glass, set a low shutter speed to allow as much light in as possible without using a flash, if you really want to go the whole hog you can illuminate the tank via underwater lighting.............

Don't forget the light .....

Most good
photographs are shot either early in the morning, or late in the
evening. There is a simple reason for this .. The sun is low and you
get shadows ... and different colours !!

This one came out grainy ..why?
Cos my camera not powerful enough ?



any tips on moon photos?
thanks

any tips on moon photos?



Do you think you will get some good photos with any camera and lens?