Five Essential Photography Tips
Posted: May 30, 2017
There is no shortage of tips on how to improve photography skills. Most photographers have a handful of essential tips that they rely on to take great shots. Here are one photographer's top five tips that just may become some of your favorites, too.
Richard Messenger, writer for Digital Photography School, shares five essential photography tips.
These are my big five photography tips which I would take with me to a desert island, the ones I can’t live without. For those who have not had the pleasure, that is a reference to the BBC Radio Four program, Desert Island Discs, which has been running for more than 70 years. The simple premise of the program is that guests choose just eight pieces of music they’d want if they were going to be marooned on a desert island.
I think that these lists are much easier to complete if given criteria. This is my Desert Island Big Five. They are chosen on the basis that if you could only apply five ideas to your photography for the rest of your shutter button pushing days, perhaps on a desert island, these would be the ones which I would recommend.
#1 – Follow guidelines not rules
Did you ever see the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Captain Barbossa (played with menace by Geoffrey Rush) chastised the main character Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), that he could not do something, because “It is not in the Pirate Rule Book”. With great, exaggerated, cheeky charm, and great comic timing, Jack Sparrow replied “I do not think of it as a RULE book … more as GUIDELINES …”
It is my strong belief that all articles and photography tips, such as this one, should be considered in the same way.
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