How to take beautiful pictures : the top 10 tips
There is a pretty cool tip round up on Kodak’s site that enumerates, with insightful examples and counter-examples, the top 10 tips you need to know to master your camera and finally take the beautiful pictures you’ve always dreamt of. Ten tips with ten animated photos, consisting in :
- Get down on the level of your subject
- Use a plain background
- Use flashes outdoor
- Move in close
- Take some vertical pictures
- Lock the focus
- Move it from the middle
- Know your flash range
- Watch the light
- Be a picture director
This eye-pleasing guide is available in flash (animated) or static html flavor, and for each tip you can dig through more advices and examples. Very nice.
This is my geeky log about everyday life and web technologies. 
17/Nov/2006 @ 4:00 pm
For my kind of photography,prior planning is #1, and lighting is #2 on the list.
It is very difficult for me to walk around and just try to find something interesting. I like to visit a site several times, and with each visit, know in advance how I will approach the subject matter…Also, try to not take every sunset you see..pretty…but, pretty played out too…Look in the opposite direction for the effects of the golden light…~rick