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Tips for Taking Better Photos

I am often asked for tips on how to create better photos of friends and family. After all, it's not like you can hire a photographer to be there all the time!

• Get in close! Photography is an art of exclusion, meaning that it's best to isolate the subject as much as is appropriate. If you want those great expressions, make sure you're close enough to record them.
• In travel photos, decide what the subject is. Often I am asked how a travel photo could be improved, and most often what is lacking is that the photo isn't concentrating on the person or the scenery. It's OK to have both in the photo, but try to make it clear what your subject is.
• Red eye is caused by the flash on small point and shoot cameras being close to the lens. The flash reflects directly off the retina (much like an animal in headlights), causing red eye. Translation: avoid using the on-camera flash. Put your subjects near a window or in other good light. Sometimes the flash is unavoidable, but in many other cases, it is.
• When using digital cameras, always shoot in JPG Fine (unless you want to get really involved, in which case, shoot in RAW). If your photos come back from the lab blocky and "pixelated", it's probably because you've been using a lower setting.
• To photograph kids well, you need to let yourself be in their environment. Their best expressions come when they are immersed in themselves and their imaginations. Go their with them, you won't be disapointed.
• Always keep your camera with you!!! How many shots have you missed because you didn't have one with you?

Give a Kid a Camera!

Here's a great experiment: if you have an older point and shoot digital camera and recently got a new one, the old one is probably not worth much on eBay. So hand it over to a kid you know. I was in a similar situation with an old digital camera a few years ago, and handed it over to my son when he was about 2 and a half. After the first few dozen when he was learning it, we've gotten about 1000 family photos that would have otherwise been missed. This is a great way to learn about a kid's perspective in the world, and what they're thinking about. If you don't have an older digital point and shoot, there's thousands available on eBay, many for less than $20. Yes it will get beat up, but the experience has been great!