Shoot many.

Shoot many. “Film” is free!

The most obvious tip that people ignore. Keep shooting till you get the shot. Here, I was trying to get Riley with his black moist nose enjoying the car ride. It took me 3 tries before I got what I was looking for. Unlike tbd “old days” you can afford to keep taking pictures, so [...]

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Composition

Composition

This subject has been discussed way too many times and it took me a while to really pay attention to it. Our natural tendency in taking a photo is to point the camera at the subject and ‘click’. Well, that may be fine for documenting something, but if you really really want the viewer to [...]

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Fix the exposure on smartphones

Fix the exposure on smartphones

Have you had pictures tun out “too dark” when you think you are in bright light? For example, I recently took this of my family on a boat trip in Annapolis with my smartphone. The result- harsh shadows and glare! I saw this on the ‘preview’ (the 5 seconds that the phone showed me the shot) [...]

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