Quick Tip – Get Closer
Here’s a quick tip for instantly better photographs. Get closer (or crop)! If you’re taking a photo of someone, unless the background is beautiful, who cares what it looks like? Fill the fram with your subject. Get up close and personal and your photos will be more interesting instantly. Your zoom not long enough? Get off your butt and get closer.
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[...] “Get Up Close†you wonder, what could that mean? Well, a variety of subjects and techniques. For this article, it shall be used as a suggestion for shooting portraits. (Though I might have been able to word it better. Let me explain.) John of Syncspeed wrote a good post yesterday about getting closer to your subject. Sometimes though, it’s even better to go to the extreme, and get really close. [...]
Comment by Digital Photography Blogs - Capturing Your World - Blog Archive » Head On on August 2nd, 2006 at 3:24 pm
[...] John from SyncSpeed posted recently about getting closer to your subjects. I, too, want to reiterate how easy it is to get great pictures by doing this, especially of babies and kids. You can take an otherwise boring picture and make it pop by simply zooming in, walking closer to your subject or cropping out unwanted background. It also helps to off-center your photo for more interestingness, too, like the photo shown here. [...]
Comment by Shooting the Kids - » Getting Up Close To Your Subjects on August 4th, 2006 at 12:23 pm