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How To Take Better Photos
Friday, 21 November 2008
By Patrick Omari

  Play with your camera settings. Don't just leave the settings on auto. Even if you change the settings to vivid you can make a photo so much more interesting. Play around with the different modes. Most cameras have settings for portraits, fireworks, underwater and many others. Try using these settings in different environments, it could make the photo all the more exciting.

If you have a more advanced camera you can also change the settings for the aperture and shutter speeds. For aperture the smaller the number the larger the aperture so the more in focus an object will be but with the background blurred. The human eye is drawn to objects that are in focus. The larger the number the more of the scene will be in focus.

The shutter speed is the length of time the cameras shutter is open. If there is little light a longer shutter speed is used so more light can go through the shutter. A longer shutter speed is great when taking photos of fireworks and sources of light.

Try the rule of thirds.When
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Why You Should Become a Photographer
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
By Alex Don

  
I became acquainted to photography only a little while ago. My friends had recently taken up this new hobby and went on and on about how great it is asking me to give it a try. I was a bit reluctant at first because the truth is I had never given it any thought.

To my surprise, my friends did not own the type of basic digital camera you are used to seeing everywhere. They had very large, high-tech devices with long noses, equipped with high resolution lenses which had a such a high zooming capability that one may have mistaken them to some paparazzi. One of them had taken up photography lessons and had influenced all of the others to buying this sort of cameras. When he first came holding that huge camera around his neck we were all very curios to discover all the features it had.

This was the first step to discovering the beauty of photography. We had no idea then that mere curiosity will take us ti a totally new world that we would have
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