Photography Tips

Posted on February 26, 2010 | Filed Under Photography

Here are some quick tips that will do a lot for your photography from a great website, Digital Photography School. The first one is a common problem with volunteer photographers but can easily be corrected.

Portraits and headroom:

One of the most common mistakes I see photographers make is the misuse of headroom.

The bottom line is, don’t leave a lot of space between the top of the subject’s head and the top of the frame. Avoid the tendency to put faces square in the middle of your viewfinder where your focus brackets may be.

In order to capture the emotions of the face, start by getting in as close as you can. At times you may even chop off the tops of a few heads. Unless the sky is particularly amazing or the trees more fantastic than your average set of trees, don’t try and force getting the surroundings into your image. Generally the background should not be more prominent than the subject.

Read more tips at digital-photography-school.com