Hi there, This video is showing you how to take better pictures in four simple
steps. It's based on an article that I made. When I studied
photography I got lots of books - about 12 years ago - I got lots of books. I
studied different people and tried to come up with the main things that
they did to make interesting photos. So I came up with an acronym CIAS. So C is for
color - always look for lots of color on things that you're taking
I - interesting, there must be something interesting happening. If
it's not interesting then go and find something or somewhere with
something interesting happening. A - angles. Normally we take photos, we just say
okay look at the camera smile and we take the photo. What I try to do is
put the camera looking up, looking down, looking through something and then
the final one is shoot shoot shoot and what I'm trying to say there is that you
might get lucky and take one shot and it's perfect but probably not. What you
have to do is take lots of shots and just pick out the best. So let's go
through those one by one. Color - I've just I downloaded these images from
Pixabay. I found ones that that really showed the thing I'm talking
about here so I'm talking about color. This one you've got a bright green
Kermit with a red scarf on a white background so he really stands out. Now
sometimes your colors come out dull. You'll take a picture and you think I looks
good and then you get home and you look at it -
not that good. What you can do especially using a smartphone or
some of these smaller phones - you can change the settings and actually
make them increase the color so just add a bit more oomph
to them. With the dslr's actually nowadays mostly you can
make the settings so you add more color but you can also then just open them up in
something like Photoshop or an online editor and you could add saturation.
It's either adding saturation, contrast or vibrance and those things will make
the things stand out. Just be careful if you've got person in there then you don't
want the skin to look orange or look strange but you can normally
add some color. Okay, so that's the first one and I just
contrasted that to one that I saw here. This is some kitesurfers and the problem
here is the distance and because it's quite humid. So it looks very dull and that's
actually the water in the air that's made that look dull. A good idea here
would have been to maybe get someone preparing to go out. You could have had them
just setting off. Where you've got the color of the kite and the color
of their surfboard maybe even their wetsuit might have had color in it. You could
have taken that as a close-up and then maybe these could have been in the
background and that would have been a much better picture.
Either that or swim out with your with your camera and take a picture from out
there but that's not very practical!
Let's look at the next thing - interesting. So here, this picture tells a
story. They're collecting water by the look of it and it's raining at
the same time and they're having fun with it. So it's telling a story.
Actually that they've done a bit more with this image - they've they've darkened
the outside here which has made you focus on the people more.
The important thing here is something interesting. I travel a lot and
normally what I see is people, they stand there look at the camera and and
someone takes a picture of them or they take a selfie and the actual interesting
thing is behind them and kind of covered up a bit. What I would suggest is
just do something. A lot of the time I live in Asia and what I would say
is like buy something from a food stall and then have someone take a picture of
you buying the food. Or go on a hike and have someone take a picture of you
walking up a mountain or climbing something just to tell a story of what
you did rather than just showing the background. Especially landscapes
don't really come out that well on photos so make it make it interesting.
Here's one that I think is not interesting. Maybe good to look at in 50
years time and say ooh I remember that but not really an interesting photo.
Let's go down. the next one is angles and really you need to take lots of angles.
Especially for children get down low - don't just take a picture looking down
at them. Get down on on their level and for animals like your pet dog, get right down
there, get get lower than the dog so it actually looks like maybe you're another
dog taking the photo or something. But when I say angles you can also
take it through something, you can have the trees just making
a frame so you're taking a picture through some trees. Yeah, just don't
always show the front of someone, you can show the back of someone so that you can
see what they're doing or what they're looking at and and can kind of change
the mood of things. So here because we don't really know what she's thinking it
just adds adds a bit of mystery to the photo. Here's another one - this is looking
up so it's a child but we're looking up, and we're looking through the bubble so
again it just makes it a little bit different. What I've said here is
shoot shoot shoot and it really is. You've got to take lots
of photos and then just pick the best. Just go through quickly and get rid of the
ones you don't like. Especially sometimes the focus won't be right. With people you
should, if you really want a good photo, focus on their eyes. Sometimes
you'll find the focus wasn't right - the focus was on the background or something. So if
you've got lots of shots then you can just pick out the good ones. I read
something one time that National Geographic photographers would take
something like eleven thousand photos on average and then just pick one.
For each eleven thousand photos they they just pick out one so I think that
was an average or something. So it just tells you that these great photos that
you see in National Geographic a little bit is by chance. It's because
they've taken so many photos. All right so that's the tips on taking photos and
I'll make this into a YouTube video so if you liked it please give it a thumbs
up or subscribe to my channel. Any questions put them in the comments box
and thanks a lot for watching the video. I'll put some links to these different
ideas or any websites have used here so that you can have looked further.
Thanks a lot, okay bye then
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