Take better Photos!

Don't you wish you could take pictures like the ones you see in magazines, or at least in the scrapbook magazines, they show cute little children or pets...and YOU KNOW...your kids and pets look JUST as CUTE as the ones in the magazines??

Why don't your pictures look like theirs?

At a meeting we had this weekend, Wendy Randall shared how to BUILD BRIDGES with PHOTOS....and she had great tips to share in how your pictures can connect your past with your present..

These were some of the tips....

1. Take MORE photographs. Most professional photographers take MANY photos of an event. You will have more to choose from if you take a LOT!
2. GET Closer! Getting closer will help you find the soul of the item you're taking a photo of! (person, place or object!)
3. Focal Point - use the eyes or whatever your focus is, to be in the 1/3's of the picture
4. Rule of Thirds - Draw a grid (like a tic-tac-toe), and place the focal point at the line or where the line intersects. This will bring more interest in your picture
5. Turn OFF the FLASH! - The flash flattens out the image. The image will have more dimension if you turn off the flash
6. Where are your light sources. The best time of day is early morning or late afternoon. The light and shadows are better than in the middle of the day
7. Distractions - there is nothing worse than to take a photo and have a pole coming out of someone's head. Make sure when you look through your viewfinder that you see beyond your subjects so that you can remove that piece of trash or errant weed before you take the picture!
8. Pictures tell a story.
   

This was a flower taken at the funeral service that I went to. I had bright sunlight on it, but what I liked was that you could see the gravestone below. I know where I was when I took that picture, and even though most people don't take pictures at gravesides, with our family, we usually got our best family photos at the gravesides. All the family was there, and it was a way to remember our gathering. I took a lot of photos of the family that day, and I still need to work on my photography skills, I have fun taking pictures.......

Maybe take some of the above tips to help improve YOUR skills....

So, be sure to follow the tips...they do work!

ps. Sorry about all the crazy half postings this weekend, I think blogspot was doing some maintenence and so the blogger thing kept timing out on me, and I didn't realize it was publishing it to my blog....so apologies *grins*

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