| Even the most accomplished photographers who've | | | | loved one's ears ... a bicycle protruding from the |
| moved into the digital age experienced an awkward | | | | bride's backside ... the potential disasters of |
| first time, a dreaded beginner's learning curve. You | | | | background "noise" are endless. Always check before |
| don't have to face your digital future with fear and | | | | you click!5. Digitals Hate the NightJust believe it. You'll |
| dread! Here are seven quick tips to make your new | | | | want to use a tripod if you do a lot of night shots. |
| photographic venture quite painless:1. Start | | | | Even with a "night" setting, which most basic digital |
| SimplyConsider an inexpensive digital that will let you | | | | cameras have, you're apt to get blurred photos as |
| practice techniques using basic and automatic | | | | the camera races against itself to manage the dim |
| settings, including auto-flash and video display. You | | | | light.6. Move AroundThere's no better time to |
| can easily move up to more complex models as you | | | | experiment with perspective, light and color than |
| become more comfortable with the technology.2. | | | | when you're starting out. Move around your subject |
| Step Into the Light!One common characteristic of | | | | to test your camera angles, your perspectives and |
| digital cameras is a small built-in flash that struggles in | | | | to know both opportunities and limitations your digital |
| what you'd usually consider adequate lighting for | | | | presents.7. Watch the Sun and ShadowsEven using |
| decent pictures. Always automatically ask for the | | | | an automatic flash adjuster, shooting into the sun on |
| maximum amount of available light anytime you're | | | | a blazing summer's day or giving in to your subject's |
| shooting inside.3. Get Up-Front and PersonalGetting | | | | natural move to shade his eyes or face, will likely |
| closer to your subject helps shed extra light on the | | | | give your digital photograph either so much light that |
| subject, improves contrast and definition, and | | | | all contrast is obscured, or else a zebra-like quality |
| self-edits those sometimes bizarre background | | | | that detracts from the subject itself. Practice moving |
| elements that can ruin a photo.4. Study the | | | | up close, keeping the sun behind you, or choose |
| BackgroundPoles rising from a politician's head ... | | | | lightly shaded areas in which to shoot human subjects |
| telephone wires seeming to extend out of your | | | | outdoors. |