Stay Close to Home and Get Great Photographs

Posted: August 11, 2014

[caption id="attachment_11978" align="alignright"] 008 Dandelion and Ladybird Image from digital-photography-school.com[/caption]Not all photographers are fortunate enough to travel to exotic locations and take breath-taking pictures. The good news – those locations aren't the only place where the opportunity to get awesome shots exists. Find great subjects and take perfect pictures just by staying close to home.

, writer for Digital Photography School, shares how to achieve great photos without having to travel too far.

You don’t need to take expensive and exotic trips to make good images. So if staying at home is more your thing then a few simple ideas can help you create beautiful images. What you might view as commonplace and bland can still be photographed in an imaginative and skillful way to produce an image that shows a far more striking aspect of the subject or scene. I am not suggesting you get all creative with software manipulation either. I am suggesting explore your imagination and creativity; perhaps push your technical boundaries a little and this will further enhance your photographic skill.

The ability to take an everyday scene and construct from it a superb image will require your application of some or all of the following:

vision to see the various elements that might be included in an imageconcentration and time to develop the idea and assimilate all the componentsawareness to recognize the potential of a color, shape and formobservation to study the scene and time enough to mentally collate the aspects of the image and to try them out in camerawillingness to try something new

This skill of making the mundane magnificent is not dependent on the type of camera and lens you use, it works with anything.

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