Improve your photography. (Basic).

Six basic ideas and tips to aid your fun image making.

1. Go in close.  One of the biggest mistakes most photographers make is shooting from too far away. Fill as much of the  frame with your subject  as you can.
2. Determine exactly what your subject is. While this sounds a bit stupid, it isn't. Is your picture a picture of auntie Mabel, and the countryside, and her dog, and her friends, and the car? Probably not. What matters most? Are you trying to get everything in one picture, if so, why?  Make it 3 pictures. Make it 20 pictures, but know why you frame a picture as you do before you shoot!
3. On the same subject, look at the backgound. Really look. Lots of shapes, colours and half seen people are nothing but pictorial noise. Choose a different angle with less clutter when you are able.
4. Don't use flash unless you have to. Switch it off. The sun's a pretty good light source. The correct use of flash is a study in itself. For now, let's only use it when there is no choice!
5.Don't split your pictures in half. If you shoot a landscape, please don't make it 50/50 sky and land. It looks awful!
6. Shoot lots!  Don't hold back. Experiment, learn, enjoy.

More another day, but in the meantime, I hope you find this useful.
Laurence.