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Chapter 12: Taking Great Pictures
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
Ten Tips for Great Pictures
The following 10 tips offer suggestions for developing your photography
approach, technique, composition, and habits. If you are an inexperienced
photographer, some of these tips might be new ideas for you. If you’re a
photography veteran, these tips might be a good reminder of things you haven’t
heard in a while.
1. Know Your Gear
Having command of your equipment is an important aspect of enjoying and
being successful with photography. As you get to know your gear and gain
confidence in a camera’s capabilities, the camera can become an extension of
yourself. When you have reached this level of competence, you can concentrate
more on the creative aspects of photography.
When you get a new camera, read the manual. With digital cameras especially,
operating the controls might not be intuitive, since many digital cameras’
controls must be accessed through menus on the LCD screen.
After you’ve read the manual and understand how and when to use your
camera’s features, go out and take a variety of pictures using the different set
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tings. Take some pictures outdoors and indoors, with the flash and without the
flash, with automatic settings and with manual settings. As you take pictures,
take notes to record the settings used for each picture. Later, look at your
photos and take note of both the settings that worked well and the settings that
produced poor results.
Missing a great photo because you get hung up on technical issues is
frustrating. Spend time getting to know your gear and prepare for great
photo opportunities.