Photo tips

1. Have a strong center of intrest
2. Watch the backgrounds (sticks poking out of someone's head... too busy...)
3. Hold the camera steady (use a tripod if you have to)
4. Pay attention to lines in a photo (Horizontal lines or flat lines tend to be peaceful, and reduce the excitement of the photos. Diagonal lines make a photo have feeling or action or excitment. Curved lines or any other lines also add to composition.)
5. Take several photos of the same thing, try different angles, different settings. (With digital photography we are not stuck listening to our pockets.  Photos are free.)
6. Simplicity is the key to good pictures. Less is more.
7. Get down. (If taking a picture of a small child a dog, get down on its level)
8. Take the same picture in vertical (Many subjects look better in verical. Remember to turn your camera.)
9. Watch the light and shadows - great light makes a great photo.
10. Be Ready! Always have your camera with you. (The biggest reason people don't have better photos: they didn’t have their camera with them.)

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep looking.”

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