Rebecca (Ramblings by Reba)
Photographing Flowers
I've developed quite a love of photographing flowers. Over the last year, I've taken thousands of photos of flowers. Here are two tips to get you started.
Get CLOSE.
Closeups are my FAVORITE, and I think it's the best way to photograph flowers.
You DON'T need to use a macro lens to photograph flowers. I use my plain [...]
Three Tips for Photographing the Moon
Like a lot of people, I enjoy photographing the moon. And, like a lot of people, I thought photographing the moon would be really hard.
I've found it's not as hard as it looks, but getting the hang of it was a bit challenging.
Here are the top three things that help me photograph the moon.
Remember, the [...]
How To "Avoid" Photo Editing Software
With programs such as PhotoShop, it's becoming easier and easier to remove unsightly stuff from photos. For instance, the photo above had electric lines running across it until I cloned them out.
Now you can't really do much about the location of electric lines in relation to the setting sun. But in some situations you can [...]
Get Down For A Better Photo Perspective
You often hear about getting down on a child's level when taking his photo.
The same applies to all sorts of small "stuff."
Here's an example of how "playing in the dirt" can improve your photography…
This is an o.k. photo of mushrooms that were growing in our backyard… you can tell they're mushrooms, but it's kind of [...]
Easy Way to Improve Action Photos
Have you ever been at an event where stuff was moving fast, and no matter what you did everything in the photo was blurry?
By increasing the number of the ISO on your camera and decreasing the amount of time the shutter is open (that it's letting light in) you can "freeze" the action and get [...]
"Mistakes" Can Be Your Photography Friend
"Some of your 'mistakes' make the best photos."
My photography professor told me this during what was otherwise a fairly miserable experience in his class. (I'm lucky I ever picked up a camera again. Just sayin'.) In this case, I was taking photos of a jungle gym. Somehow, I hit the shutter without realizing it. When [...]
Don't Leave Home Without It!
This may be the easiest photography "trick" out there — but one that you may not think of: take your camera with you as much as you can.
Take the camera even when you are "sure" you won't find a thing to photograph. Simply: You're Often Wrong.
You never know what you'll find. Or what you'll [...]
Three Simple Ways to Improve Your Photographic Eye
People sometimes say to me, "I just don't SEE everything you do."
While it's true that some people will have a better "eye" for photography than others, I think everyone can hone their ability to "see" things. I didn't "see" some of this stuff until I started to practice.
Here are three simple ways to do it.
1. [...]
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