Digital Photography Tricks - Secret? You Decide!

One thing that I always do when taking pictures (and it has taken a lot of practice) is to fill the frame with the subject. Most "snapshots" have a lot of space in them that is either clutter or empty.

Sometimes when I take a picture of an object, I allow part of it to extend beyond the frame. The human brain will fill in the parts that are missing. A great digital photography trick to the brain!

If you think that you are close enough to the subject, always get closer. When you think you are too close, then that is close enough.

Also, talking about clutter, when you look through your view finder or at the LCD screen, always look at what is around your subject. Is yesterday's newspaper sitting on the floor, what about any trash, other people that you don't want in the "scene".

Pay close attention to what is in the frame that you don't want in the final picture. Can you move whatever in the picture out of the way? What about taking the picture from a different angle? Just remember when you have returned home from that incredible trip of a lifetime and start reviewing your photos and then you start seeing items that should not be in your picture, like the "do not lean on the railing" sign. It could be too late or take hours to edit out the unwanted item. If you just take a few seconds when taking the picture and review what is in the scene so that a headache can be avoided later.

Read more digital photography tricks below.

Can I be honest with you? You can search for photography tricks on the internet and find a lot of good information, but I have found that it is still lacking. If you truly want to take pictures like a pro, you either need to take a class or purchase some books. Don't get me wrong, you can improve your photos greatly with techniques found on the internet, but they will leave you short.

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Patterns are everywhere. Nature is the master at patterns and repeating. Any object, color or texture that is repeated can become a great photograph. It could be leaves, windows on a building, sea shells or just about anything.

Another great idea is to find a repeating pattern and then show where it breaks. Maybe a whole box full of red apples and one yellow one. The juxtaposition between the colors creates a magnetic effect so that the viewer's eye is drawn towards the "odd man out".

If you use some of the other digital photography tricks I have explained along with a repetition like; leading lines/ color/ rule of thirds, your photographs will pop!

There are so many reflective surfaces around us, water, glass, chrome, mirrors, my forehead. Okay, not my forehead (most of the time), I was making sure you were still listening.

It seems that out of all of the digital photography tricks that I know, using reflective surfaces to take better pictures is not used very often. Anyway, the surface could be smooth and highly reflective, like a mirror or the exact opposite like a sculpted glass figurine. If you move around the reflective object, as your point of view changes, so does the shape of any object being reflected.

You can even use glass to create two images out of one. The image could contain a person on the opposite side of the glass as well as a reflection of someone walking by on this side, Double Prizes!

I am not talking about the "picture frame". I am talking about putting an object "inside" another frame object. Some digital photography tricks are about forcing the eye to gravitate to a section of the photo. One way to explain it is to take a picture through a doorway, but have the doorway "frame" the object beyond.

You can use any object or objects that will create "walls" around the subject, Leaves, doorway, window, people, or just about anything.

When you create the frame around the subject, it draws the viewer's eye to the center of the picture. It highlights what you want the viewer to see.

If you look at the picture to the right, you notice that it is "framed" by leaves and those draw your eye directly to the waterfall.

I hope you use all of these digital photography tricks to take better pictures. If you look below, there are other articles and books that I recommend for even more digital photography tricks.

All Text and Pictures: © Russell Roberds 2009