Get The Best Out Of Your Digicam

18 Nov, 2006, 5:25 pm IST | Gagan Gupta

Its not only about owning a good digital camera, it's also about how you use it.

Get The Best Out Of Your Digicam

3. Change your perspective
When you approach a subject, think about how you can make your shot stand out from all others. For example when someone takes a picture of the Taj Mahal, its usually the same front perspective.


Beautiful, but has been done to death before

Not that it doesn’t look great, but there isn't anything unique about it for someone who's already seen pictures of it.

A different perspective can give a fresh look to the subject

The rule applies to just about everything. If you just look at the subject from a slightly different angle, you’ll immediately notice the freshness of your shot. Don’t just stand around, bend a bit, get on higher surfaces, move around your subject in different ways till you see a great shot that will uniquely be yours.

Here's another example of how a different perspective can add so much more to a composition. The statue below is a subject I use for all my camera tests. The shot is great for testing texture details, colors and focus of the camera, but lets face it — it's aesthetically boring.

But by simply changing the angle of my camera in following shots, the same subject looks more aesthetically pleasing.

Tags: digital camera , digicam , photography , Picasa , Photoshop

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