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Taking pictures - Åke's 8 tips

1. Get closer. And zoom closer. Imagine that the picture will eventually show up as a little square on a tabblo!

 

2. Use the  grid and choose a line crossing for the “eye”-focus.

 

3. Use a frame if you can, or something in the foreground. It gives depth to the picture

 

4.Guide the eyes with lines; a path, road, creek or wall. We tend to like to look from left to right and from bottom and up.

 

 
1. Closer is often more interesting
 
2. Use of grid
 
2. Use of grid. Interesting focus at a crossing.
 
3: Use a frame or something in foreground:The flag used to give depth to the picture
 
3 Use a frame
 
4. Guide the eyes
 
4. Guide the eyes
 
5. Contrast in colors

5. Look for contrast; in colour, light or things. It makes it more interesting

 

6. Look for the light and shadows.

 

7. Move up and down when composing picture, Just don’t stand comfy and shoot!

 

8. Last tip: Experiment! Forget all about the rules and tips!  :-)

 
5. Contrast in colors
 
6. Look for the light and shadows
 
7 Move up and down. Here I had to bend a bit.
 
8. Experiment!

Good luck!
COMMENTS
DEE-Trow said at 7:47 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
I really love this! You are one of the professionals, for sure. I think we all know that. I really appreciate the tips. I will try to remember them all! The last one is fabulous!!!
Cruising said at 7:51 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
This is GREAT!
Chiloedream said at 7:59 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
Merci beaucoup pour les conseils. Bravo pour les images, amitiés.
Pkeener said at 8:27 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
What a great Tabblo. Thanj you for sharing and i love the last tip!
Nmat said at 8:34 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
This is wonderful, thank you for all the illustrated tips! Great tabblo.
Mashpee_Paula said at 9:16 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
Thanks for the tips. Nice pictures too!
Candieiro said at 9:34 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
great tips man, since I was born a rebel I'll take #8 and run with it - LOL
Jasontengco said at 10:39 p.m. on Nov 13, 2006:
thanks for the basics! :)
Trekki said at 12:51 a.m. on Nov 14, 2006:
Ake this is brillant !! Thanks for sharing !! And thanks for the photos, aahhh yes, Christmas :-) I love the last one :-))
Eduardo.affonso said at 10:04 a.m. on Nov 14, 2006:
Thanks, teacher! When are you going to send me my diploma??
Sheila said at 11:59 a.m. on Nov 14, 2006:
this now goes to my favorites :) thanks for the pointers.
Anjad said at 1:30 p.m. on Nov 14, 2006:
Thanks a lot for these tips! Great tabblo, great pics.
Mthorne said at 9:17 a.m. on Nov 15, 2006:
You are too kind to share this info! thanks so much!!!
Setu said at 11:32 a.m. on Nov 15, 2006:
Great tips ! Thank you. thanks to deetrow too for starting this group. Nice way of learning and sharing good photography !
Scharn said at 3:46 p.m. on Nov 15, 2006:
Great tips thanks you, also a great group of photos.
Siagian said at 1:30 p.m. on Nov 20, 2006:
thank you Ake. good things will come your way too...its all about karma.
Jillcdunn said at 2:20 p.m. on Nov 21, 2006:
What a great resource! Thanks for sharing your tips.
Piscean33 said at 11:08 p.m. on Nov 23, 2006:
Excellent, thanks for sharing your tips.
Hollyridger said at 12:20 p.m. on Dec 9, 2006:
Well done, this is very well done. How about adding "be prepared to crop". I often find that what looked like a dud can become a very interesting photo with some judicious cropping.
Akeke said at 1:01 p.m. on Dec 9, 2006:
Noreen: Brother Crop is a close relative to Sister Go-Closer. I almost always crop my pictures. But I dont know any short good advice How-to, just the 8th: Experiment.
Hollyridger said at 2:36 p.m. on Dec 9, 2006:
Yes, you are right! "Experiment" is what it is all about. I find that Picasa2 works very well for cropping. First of all I click open a photo then I zoom in on it using the zoom feature (bottom right). Using the mouse it is easy to move the photo around to arrive at a pleasing crop, experimenting at various zoom levels. Picasa places a rectangle around the zoomed area that is easy to replicate with the Crop tool. Knowing that Picasa does not change the original photo I have fun cropping and changing until I arrive at something I want to save. This is hard to explain so just ask if I am not making myself clear!
Akeke said at 3:03 p.m. on Dec 9, 2006:
Totally agree with you! And if you didnt remember my second advice (Use a grid) then you can correct that with cropping. Tabblo is helping you in cropping to. When pictures kinda shrink into small rectangles it is sometimes cropped and that sometimes give me the idea to crop differently.
Ejmccartin said at 11:25 a.m. on Feb 3, 2007:
this is great and I love your pictures. thank you for putting this together. =)
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