Photography Outdoors: Do not Stop When Chance Arrives

If you like the photography in the wild (outdoor), we are often confronted by unfriendly weather. Partly for example. But do not let your preoccupation with photographing clouds blocking. Here are some objects that are even better in the pictures in cloudy weather.

People / Portrait & Animal. Produces a flat overcast lighting and gentle, as if you have a giant soft box up there. Light during overcast produce a better facial images. When photographing faces in the sun you will trouble controlling the contrast of dark shadows and light that is too loud (usually under the eyes and nose and the neck).

The trees. Try photographing lush trees during the heat of the sun, you will find that too harsh contrast between the sky and leaves. When cloudy this contrast will be reduced drastically so that the overall result will be great photo.

Waterfall & River. Waterfalls and streams would be much nicer in the photos when clouds arrive. We will more easily create Cotton effects that make the water look like clumps of cotton are soft, even the darker the gray the more subtle “cotton” is obtained.

The sky. Chance of making the sky seems more dramatic because there are gradations between dark and light.

Photographing Children Tips

Photographing children is something that’s fun. Expression of natural and funny and adorable doings which is their main attraction. But making all the appeal had been able to look at the photos is a challenge. Learning Photography will share six tips that will help you capture their expressions and plain funny, please try:

Let Them in Action Spontaneous When we are too direct so that the children pose a particular style, they will begin to lose the spontaneity and confidence. So let them stylish and spontaneous expression. The most powerful way is by getting them to play peek-a-boo, or if they are too big to play peek-a-boo, invite them to chat. Ask the name, the name of the mother / father, ask the school etc, then let the conversation flow … Then snap!

Align Position Camera with Those Eyes If you want their body looks proportional (the head is not greater than other parts of the body), were squat or lie down. Their bodies are naturally much shorter than us, so we must be willing to squat or lie down. Unless you want a certain effect, and angle.

Take advantage of the Tools Not all kids like stylish and graceful pose, especially if you know they’re in the photo. If the child looks awkward, embarrassed or too rigid tools that you use. Toys are the most powerful tool, if they like to play dolls give a doll. If they love to play toy cars, toy cars provide. If toys are not available, you can use a chair, a book or even a pen. That way they will forget when they’re so few photographs of objects and begin to spontaneous expression.

Ask the ideals they (or a favorite cartoon character) Children usually have (or learners to have) certain ideals or at least have a favorite cartoon character. Engineers, doctors, football players, soldiers, teachers, religious teacher or naruto, superman, batman. Anything. Put the costume according to the ideals or their favorite characters and fantasy begin to drift so that they will lose all rigidity and nervousness. Come on … how superman flying. Snap!

Do not Force them to Smile Forced said “cheeerssss …. “, and then you will get a forced smile, stiff-drawn lips. Pose a nice not having to always smile.

Use the Continue Mode / Burst (or Scene Mode: Sports) because children tend to move around, you will be overwhelmed if forcing the camera to find focus in Single mode. Use the continue mode / burst or if you use the automatic setting to use sports scene / children. More info on the operating mode of the camera scene, read here

Important Accessories for Your SLR Camera

So, exactly what the hell accessories most useful (and also the most popular) for owners of SLR? The following types of accessories for you:

Camera bags

Various types of camera bags available in the market, just select the appropriate tastes: from the backpack, belt, and sling-slide (sideways) to a similar suitcase. What is clear here serves a camera bag so we could keep the camera and lens that we have had for traveling safely. Cleaning Kit

To keep the exterior condition of the lens and camera to keep it clean, you need a lap microfibers and special cleaning fluid. Especially for the lens, as much as you may protect the lens with UV filter (see filter below), usually to just use a lens blower. Cleaning kit can be purchased at camera stores.

Tripod

Tripod, monopod, gorilla pod, whatever its function is to help you take sharp photos at shutter to take long exposures. Compared to other types, a tripod is still the most popular, because it is relatively more reliable and resilient.

External Flash

External flash will drastically improve the quality of your images when compared to the default when you use a flash attached to the SLR camera. Have a far greater power, the ability to control a much more flexible, and we can set the direction of illumination that falls into objects more easily.

Filter

Filters are essential accessories that enough for SLR systems. Of the various types of filters, there are 3 types that you consider worthy to be purchased:

  • Protection Filter (UV Filter or Neutral) – in fact the function is to protect your lens, these filters are relatively inexpensive so you will be ‘sincere’ make it a bumper mounted in front of the lens. Let that come into contact with the air filter dirty-hands splashing water and not a lens that costs can be many times more expensive.
  • Polarization Filter – change the sky so it looks more ‘in’, eliminating reflections in the water (or glass), so that the trees looked greener. Simply put it is like sunglasses for your lens.
  • Filter ND (Neutral Density) – reduce the amount of light entering your camera. If you want to produce photo waterfall that looks like cotton (long shutter) while it was still too late, then you will need a ND filter so that light can be reduced.

Shutter Release

Besides the tripod, additional accessories that will enhance the sharpness of your photo are the shutter release. With the shutter release, we do not need to squeeze the shutter button on the camera, just use the shutter release so that you can activate the shutter from a distance.

Vertical Grip (VG)

If you start taking pictures while the camera is more intensively you do not have a vertical grip features of nature to, buy additional vertical grip. Besides being very helpful when shooting in portrait orientation (vertical), VG also serves as a backup battery, so no need to worry about running out of batteries.