1. Concentrate on What You Can do the Best.
It’s easy to walk away from a photo opportunity because you don’t feel your lens is long enough or wide enough, or you believe your camera’s continuous shooting speed is slow or its autofocus sluggish.
But learning to think around any potential barriers is how original photos are made. Instead of wishing for a 600mm lens for wildlife photography, see how you can frame an impactful shot with a wide-angle.
Rather than cursing your lack of an ultra-wide lens when photographing a sweeping coastal shot, take a series of frames and stitch them together later.
No fast f/1.2 portrait lens in your line-up?
Find a location where the foreground and background will be so far from your portrait-sitter that it’s easy to make them stand out, even at f/5.6.
2. Read the Camera Instructions
Reading your DSLR’s manual won’t help you improve your photography per se, but a bit of technical camera knowledge will make a difference to the aesthetic quality of your pictures in the long term.
You’ll learn how to customize the controls of your camera so that you can react to situations faster.
You’ll understand which of the many auto-focus options and AF point set-ups will suit different subjects. You’ll know how the camera will handle flash exposures in different shooting modes.
3. Fix Your Daily Routine For Practice
You don’t have to head out in pursuit of an award-winning shot seven days a week, but the more you use your camera, the more instinctively you’ll be able to use it.
Being able to press the correct button to adjust the aperture or ISO without taking your eye from the viewfinder, or to know which direction to rotate the camera’s dial to make the next shot brighter or darker can increase your chances of capturing spontaneous photographs.
4. Start a Photography Project
Setting yourself a goal and parameters to work within is a great way to sharpen your eye for a picture, and by starting a photography project you’ll force yourself to make the best of your current camera gear.
You could try the classic 365 photo project, taking one photo a day for a year. Perhaps restrict yourself to a single lens or focal length on a zoom.
How about choosing a theme: a specific color, emotion, location or camera effect?
Having a project in mind when you’re out with your camera will give your photography focus.
5. Follow Photographers You Admire
By following the best photographers on Facebook ,Instagram & Youtube, regularly checking in on their blogs and learning the stories behind their best photos, you’ll develop your eye for a picture and ultimately improve your own photography while you’re commuting on the train or sat at your desk at work.
6. Read the Best Photography Books Regularly
As many as 880 billion photos will be taken in 2014, reports Popular Photography.
And you can bet that most of those will end up being shared online. Few photography websites bother with quality control, while fewer still are able to curate such a volume of pictures into a meaningful selection worth looking at.
So why not treat your eyes to a photography book where every picture has to count?
We’re not talking practical how-to photography guides, but ‘coffee table’ photo books, such as Life(Frans Lanting), Water Light Time (David Doubilet), Street Photography Now (Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren) and We English (Simon Roberts).
7. Use your Tripod
How often have you heard that pearl of advice? We’d guess at least 320 times. But a tripod can be seriously good for the health of your photography.
We’re not talking technically here — supporting your camera during an exposure is naturally going to give you sharper photos — but rather the way that a tripod slows down the art of picture taking.
The fiddly process of setting up a tripod encourages you to pay more attention to the camera position, what elements you’ll include and exclude in the photo and fine-tune the framing.
8. Use a Small Capacity Memory Card
By keeping a small capacity card — or a larger capacity card, which is half full — in your camera, you’ll be forced to be more selective when it comes to pressing the shutter release.
Without the freedom to ‘spray and pray’ or to make countless in-camera duplicates, you’ll soon start making each frame count.
9. Use Live Mode For Shoot
When you take pictures using the viewfinder, you feel more intimately involved with the picture-taking process.
Use Live View however, and you can, literally, take a step back and see the image in a more detached way.
The larger picture displayed on your camera’s Live View screen can give you a better feel for the size of the subject in relation to the rest of the frame (not all viewfinders show 100% of the image), makes it easier to spot distractions and precisely set both the focus and exposure.
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