If you are looking for some professional photography techniques in order to improve your photography, you are in luck! Here is a photo tip that will propel your photography into a whole new realm...fast!
A professional photographer is someone who not only knows the best professional phototography techniques, but is able to duplicate them at will.
In other words, he or she KNOWS how to get the shot. Every Time. There's no guesswork. This is important not just for professionals but for amateur photographers as well! After all, we all got into photography in order to express our creative vision! Photo opportunities are fleeting and we need to KNOW how to get the shot on the first try...there may not be another opportunity.
Unfortunately, with everyone shooting digital these days, it is easy - and free - to shoot dozens or even hundreds of pictures, just to get a couple keepers. And too many of us are trying to do it just that way - relying on hit and miss luck rather than learning the best professional photography techniques!
With this scatter gun approach, we aren't learning the best professional photography techniques; we are just shooting and hoping for the best.
If you want to see a dramatic and almost immediate improvement in your photography, just pay attention to the viewing screen on the back of your camera!
After each shot, take a look at what you've got...if it is what you were after, make a note of it in a simple shot notebook. Record all the settings, lighting condition, and etc. then, whenever you are faced with a similar situation, you'll immediately know what to do to "get the shot".
If you didn't get what you were after, don't just keep firing away and pray for the best! Actually try to determine why it wasn't the shot you wanted, take a guess at what you need to change to make it work, and TRY IT!
Tests have shown that whenever we are trying to learn something, if we guess at the answer first, we are far more likely to remember the final solution - whether our guess was correct or not.
Rinse and repeat until you get the photograph you wanted and make a note of it in your shot notebook.
True, this seems kind of boring and unsexy, but keeping a shot notebook is the way the better photographers learned all those amazing professional photography techniques.