The basic steps in digital photography are what the really amateur photographers seem to forget. Whether its due to over excitement, carelessness or just rushing your shots, there’s nothing as bad as taking photographs and loading them later on the computer only to find out that they are blurred or slightly shaken. Think about it this way, say you were going to Florida for a 2 week vacation and you’re from Britain. You fly the whole way over and enjoy a great vacation taking loads of pictures of Miami or the Everglades or even Key West for that matter. Then you fly the whole way home, upload your vacation shots and find that 30 to 50% of them are not straight, blurry or shaken. Would you not feel upset thinking about how far you have travelled to get those great memories.
Well, here I’m hoping to help you cancel out these problems with a few tips for digital photography that will hopefully save you the hassle from above.
Proper handling of the camera can help to reduce the number of times that you actually have to retake the same picture. Hold the camera firmly and steadily in your hand and try not to rush the shot. Be careful when you’re pressing the shutter button not to push or move the camera at the same time. Push the shutter button firmly but gently enough so that you’re only pushing the button and not actually shaking the camera. Hold the camera firmly or wrap your fingers around the camera so that you know where they are and one does not happen to appear on the edge of your shot. It is also sometimes a good idea, especially with smaller cameras to actually take the picture while looking through the view finder instead of using the screen. This way you can focus and see exactly what you’re taking the picture of and also you can help to stabilize the camera between your hands and your face. Hope this will cut out the camera shake for you. This process will also help you to stop rushing the shots as there’s a bit more to it than pointing the camera using the screen and taking shots from everywhere.
One of the great points in having a digital camera is that you can have a preview of the pictures after you have taken them. If you didn’t get the picture you wanted or someone had their eyes closed, then all you have to do is view it and retake the picture again. Just delete the picture from your memory card as it saves time later. Just one thing to note about the few tips for digital photography that have been given above, the preview screen on your camera is only about 2 inches in size. It’s a small screen so not all minor shakes, blurs or badly lined pictures will show up on the screen. However, when you get them home and upload them onto your computer and view them on a bigger screen, this is when these minor issues come out. So, to avoid these minor problems remember what you have been taught and always get the basics right.
I hope these few tips for digital photography will help you to get the great shots you want and stop you from having to delete too many pictures down the line.
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