You know exactly what it's like. You've been on holidays and seen some great sights and been to some wonderful places. You've filled up cards with all your photos. But you've got home to view your photos and they are always disappointing. They just didn't capture it and they look dull and lifeless.
You wanted to convey so many things in your photos. That special sunset. That light that just turned the view into something special. And that moment when you took that delightful smile on your girlfriends face. Except that when you view your photos none of those things are there.
I don't mean that you've made simple errors like putting your thumb over the lens or anything dumb like that, you're too good a photographer for that and you've got a great camera. And you've spent some time learning how to use it. You've expected now that your photos should look good.
But each time you download your photos you're disappointed. The results aren't there. Your photos just don't tell the story you wanted.
Sometimes it may be just a little step from taking average, or poor, photos, to taking good photos. You don't need to spend years studying photography at College, you just need to learn some simple things that every professional photographer already knows.
Like simple stuff such as how to compose a photo properly, how to use light to it's best advantage. How to take people and pets. How to take landscapes, how to use a tripod or flash properly.
There's no doubt that modern cameras are very good. They take good photos if you know how, but don't expect to just point and shoot and get a great result. It's still necessary to know how to drive one of those modern cameras to make best use of them. You need to know some photography basics. No camera will take great photos if you just point and shoot.
I'm sure that if they could build one they would, but to date the technology doesn't exist to build a camera that will take great photos regardless of the skills of the person behind the lens. Even with the technology behind great digital cameras you still need to learn some basic photography skills to take good photos each time.
I'm not saying it's hard, just that there are some secrets of the pros that you need to learn and practice and apply them to take great photos.
Then when you go on holidays next time you won't need to feel embarrassed about your average boring photos. You'll love showing them to your friends, they'll probably be asking you for tips on how to take good photos themselves.
And you might even look at your holiday photos and find your girlfriend smiling.
I've got a book about how to take good photos, get it on my website. - 31515
You wanted to convey so many things in your photos. That special sunset. That light that just turned the view into something special. And that moment when you took that delightful smile on your girlfriends face. Except that when you view your photos none of those things are there.
I don't mean that you've made simple errors like putting your thumb over the lens or anything dumb like that, you're too good a photographer for that and you've got a great camera. And you've spent some time learning how to use it. You've expected now that your photos should look good.
But each time you download your photos you're disappointed. The results aren't there. Your photos just don't tell the story you wanted.
Sometimes it may be just a little step from taking average, or poor, photos, to taking good photos. You don't need to spend years studying photography at College, you just need to learn some simple things that every professional photographer already knows.
Like simple stuff such as how to compose a photo properly, how to use light to it's best advantage. How to take people and pets. How to take landscapes, how to use a tripod or flash properly.
There's no doubt that modern cameras are very good. They take good photos if you know how, but don't expect to just point and shoot and get a great result. It's still necessary to know how to drive one of those modern cameras to make best use of them. You need to know some photography basics. No camera will take great photos if you just point and shoot.
I'm sure that if they could build one they would, but to date the technology doesn't exist to build a camera that will take great photos regardless of the skills of the person behind the lens. Even with the technology behind great digital cameras you still need to learn some basic photography skills to take good photos each time.
I'm not saying it's hard, just that there are some secrets of the pros that you need to learn and practice and apply them to take great photos.
Then when you go on holidays next time you won't need to feel embarrassed about your average boring photos. You'll love showing them to your friends, they'll probably be asking you for tips on how to take good photos themselves.
And you might even look at your holiday photos and find your girlfriend smiling.
I've got a book about how to take good photos, get it on my website. - 31515
About the Author:
Peter has written a book about How To Take Good Photos which you can get at his website about Taking Better Photos
