How to improve your photos.

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=150 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="77afd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>P & W Think Tank </B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="P W Think Tank "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photography Page"><U><B><IMG SRC="7760e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>   </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>     </B><A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More Information"><U><B><IMG SRC="7770e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Beginning is the Middle... by Joe"><U><B><IMG SRC="7780e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=330 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>How to improve your photos.</I></div> <div> How to Take Good Snapshots with a Cheap Camera.</div> <div> Joe Ballenger Jr.</div> <bR> <div> You can take professional quality photographs with even your cheap throwaway camera. There are five rules that will make your pictures better than the average snap shot photo.</div> <bR> <div> 1. The subject in the finished photo should fill up the photo. Get close.  What do you get if you photograph a little boy across the room? Well, do you want a picture of the room or the little boy? Get closer and fill his face in the view finder to see his cute dimples.</div> <bR> <div> 2. Don't put your subject in the center of the photo. Draw an imaginary tic-tack-tow grid as you look in the eyepiece to frame your subject. Put the subject, or center of interest, at one of the four crosses of the tic-tack-tow grid.<IMG SRC="277c5940.jpg" border=0 width="197" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> 3. Put the sun, or the window or the lamp if you're inside to the side or behind you - not behind the subject. If you have the light behind the subject you get a silhouette of the subject. Now if you want a silhouette... .</div> <bR> <div> 4. Don't have things growing out of the subject's head. For example center a person between trees, bushes and telephone poles, street signs, or lamps and window frames. Uh, did I mention door frames...?</div> <bR> <div> 5. Photography rules were made to be broken. If you have a good photographic statement by getting back, silhouetting, growing horns or halos...you may have a reason that you could explain if asked.</div> <bR> <div> Having studied photography techniques on my own and in college, I have learned to use these five rules to make my photos better. I did well enough to sell snap shots that I took of friends and acquaintances, even though I was not a photographer by occupation. Now I do work as a professional. I prefer available light photography.</div> <bR> <div> Anybody unfamiliar with photography can use these five simple rules to make better photos. Advanced techniques about lighting, depth of field, and selective focusing are lost on most people. Especially those who use cameras that aren't suited for such advanced techniques. Those people just want better snap shots at birthday parties, during the holidays, and other occasions where they photograph. These rules also work for those of us who do use better cameras, but mostly use the simple point and shoot technique.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photography Page"><U>To the Photography Page</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>