Tips & Tricks • Pick up a pair of large lensed sunglasses. Find your subject, set up your camera, and cover the lense of your camera with the lense of the sunglasses. Make sure you check that you can't see the frame of the glasses in the lcd screen. [Submitted by -CINNAMONsensation]
• Sometime's it's better to not rely on your cameras flash,get into a more well lit area then use it,it will fill the shadows more but wont make everyone look white and artificial [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• ALWAYS shoot high resolution,nothing worse than having a great photo and it's no bigger than a webcam frame [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Digital users should always remember white balance,it can make pictures more rich(warm),neutural,natural or cool colored [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Don't be afraid to be bold and fill almost the entire frame when taking portraits [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Shoot manual,leaving it all up to the camera can work out fine but for the ultimate creative control and those difficult photos manual will always be best [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Web optimise your images by resizing them (keep the full size originals) in photoshop etc,this will make it quick and easy to upload them almost anywhere [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• When digitally shooting black & white shoot color first,your camera doesn't produce b&w as well as you can in post production. [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Tracing paper can be a quick and easy diffuser for a flash [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Sheets of white cardboard can be used as reflectors,if you want a silver reflector simply scrunch up some aluminium foil then straighten it out and glue it down to one side (un-scrunched aluminium will cast really solid light where as scrunched then flattened lights more subtly) [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Always take notice of shadows,they make or break alot of photos. [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Smaller apertures will make for greater focal length and depth of field but at a cost of shutter speed. [Submitted by NecroOptic]
• Always keep the crap ones. (Once they're on your computer, they don't always look so bad) [Submitted by: Pierrot_The_Clown]
• Take care of your camera like it's your very own child. [Submitted by: Pierrot_The_Clown]
• Always keep spare batteries with your camera, skiing behind reindeer on a frozen lake is a beautiful thing, having the batteries go dead when you want to take a picture, SUCKS [Submitted by: Pierrot_The_Clown]