What you can do to take a nice photo - Lucy

Photography is a hobby that many people around the world enjoy. Sometimes it can be quite complex and quite expensive. Photography involves a lot of things such as; the rule of thirds, different perspectives, capturing light to get different effects and more! You can also use different editing sites like Iphoto (only for apple devices) where you can crop, straighten, enhance (make the photos brighter in colour) and more.

One of the techniques you could use is the rule of thirds. To use this what you do is you get the camera  and on some cameras all you have to is click the display button a couple of times. The rule of thirds looks like a grid.

As you can see it is split into 9 small squares. When you use this grid you could use the left line or the right line , top line or bottom line to catch a nice photo. You could also use connecting lines. When you use this technique you will have a lot of negative space (empty space) but a tree our sun like this picture could fill this up.

As you can see the sun fills up the negative space. 

As you can see in this picture there is a lot of negative space
but the shadows kind-of fill it up.

The rule of thirds is a great technique to use when something or someone has somewhere to go.

There is many different ways to capture light. Some times a silhouette my look really cool but to get it when take the picture you hold the lens towards the sun and have the sun in the picture you take. (a silhouette is the outline of a figure but shows no detail) But if you don't want a silhouette you stand with your back towards the sun. Sometimes a shadow will cast over part of the object you were taking a picture of so you could just move around.

This is an example of using the rule of thirds and
The silhouette technique.

In photography there are a few different perspectives. These perspectives you take from different angles. Mouse is when you take a picture with the camera on the ground facing towards the object you are taking a picture of. Giraffe is when you take a picture looking straight down on something. And possum is when are zoomed out and are taking a picture of something hole. I personally like using mouse because you normally get the sky as the background.

Overall photography is lots of fun. You will never finish learning something new about photography. Photography is full of enjoyment. Photography is quite complex but once you do it for a long time it will get easier.

By Lucy