How to Take Impressive Pictures

Jun 12
08:20

2009

Michael Wong

Michael Wong

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Many people thought that it is difficult to take impressive pictures. But in reality, it is actually something quite easy and you can even have some fun in the process of doing it. And below are some tips to help you on that.

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Have you ever felt so impressed with your pictures and when you show them to your audiences,How to Take Impressive Pictures Articles the feedback fell flat? It feels so discouraging when your audiences don't share the same enthusiasm as you. The tips below are to help you take impressive pictures and to elicit the feeling within your viewers.

1. Human subject

Many landscape photographers like to take the natural scenes without any humans inside the pictures. They claim that having a person in the photo somehow creates an awkward feeling. Although what they claim is correct, you are however, limiting yourself from experiencing the full potential of digital photography.

Combining people into your landscape pictures can actually create different feeling to your pictures. The different expression of the human subject can help to make the pictures livelier. Imagine you are looking at the picture of a group of people cheering the sun rise on the mountain peak. Can you feel the same energy? Doesn't it made you want to be there?

Although landscape pictures have their own unique attraction, adding people to the pictures can create different vibe to it and in fact make the pictures livelier.

2. Reflection

To the contrary of common belief, taking pictures in front of mirrors can be easy and fun. You can try this when you are taking portrait photography and it is like creating a duplicate of your subject.

And to make your pictures even more spectacular, you can take pictures using the reflection of water, recently polished surface of some metals or even a Christmas tree ball. You should see how your subject can be distorted with the reflection of the Christmas tree ball. It is funny.

However, when you are taking picture with reflection, you need to be careful not to catch the reflection of yourself or the flash in the picture.

3. Panorama

Have you ever been amazed with the majestic view of the mountains and yet fail to include all of them into your pictures? Although you can correct this problem by changing to a wide angle lens, but what if you don't have the lens?

When that happens, you can continue to take the pictures and stitch the pictures into a panorama with photo editing software to bring out the complete breath taking landscape.