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How to Make Your Photos Better

Author: Sneha Capoor
by Sneha Capoor
Posted: Dec 15, 2016

There is a Quote which says, "You don’t take a photograph, you make it." This is the simplest deliberation of a good photography and a perfect photograph. With today’s photography techniques and advanced tools, you can make your regular picture look stunning and professional. Apart from these professional tools, there are certain tips which can make your photo look perfect. Let’s discuss some of these tips here.

Capture Interesting Lighting: This is the simplest and most powerful aspect of making your photos look beautiful. Proper lighting conditions, brightness, exposure, and contrast make the difference between any regular photo and one that looks great. It also makes the photo look professional. Don’t confuse proper light condition with daylight as some of the most beautiful photographs can be clicked at dusk and dawn. Try to focus light around the subject on taking that best picture.

Avoid Aberration: Aberration is something you can relate to every next photo. That destructive and cluttered background behind the subject that holds up viewer from enjoying the subject. Aberration can be found around the edges of the frame or around the subject. You can avoid such aberrations by giving close attention to the subject and the background around it.

Focus on the subject: If you find a problem getting a composition make sense it is most likely due to the selection of multiple subjects at a time. To avoid this, decide on a subject you want to choose as a center of attention to finding much better picture.

Digital Styling: You can use this term "digital styling" to look your picture more attractive and professional. There are a number of options available to make your regular picture look stunning. You can use different software and apps to create a visible difference in your photos. One such effective tool is noise reduction software which helps you de-noise your photographs instantly. Noise is a commonly-used term to describe visual distortion in a photograph. It includes aberrant pixels, tiny speckles, discoloration in an image. It may occur due to low-light condition or a high ISO setting etc. Thus noise reduction software can help you get rid of all such problems in a photograph.

Proper Depth-of-field: You can create variations in photo subject varying the depth-of-field of the photograph. It can help you get better and more professional photographs. You can follow certain steps to take pictures at a shallow depth of fields where the subject will be sharp and the background will be blurry. To do this:

  • Use your longest lens
  • Set the camera settings to aperture priority
  • Set the aperture as low as it can go
  • Step close to subject while allowing lens to focus
  • Be attentive towards the background of the subject
  • Put the focus point on the subject and Click.

Find interesting subject: This is the simplest and most important factor of taking right picture. Do your research and find some good subject to capture. It can be anything living or non-living thing, landscape, skyline or anything. Be intact to the subject and create a beautiful picture around it.

Mood: This is another important but oft-overlooked aspect of the photography. Before taking a picture you need to decide what kind of mood you want to convey through your picture. It will help you focus on the subject and everything else. For example, taking a similar picture at dusk or dawn can create a significant difference in the mood of it.

Other than these important factors you can give attention to other aspects like composition, the perspective of the photo, exposure, even image size etc. Hope these cool tips can help you get your next click right and impressive.

About the Author

Sneha Capoor is a content writer and her keen interest is writing about technicak topics.

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