Use your zoom!!! This is how far away I stand from my dolls when I take pictures of them. I try to zoom quite a bit when I take photos.
Here I have a few examples of my pictures zoomed and not zoomed. This one is not zoomed.
And this one is zoomed. As you can see zooming helps to blur your background and give you bokeh ( I know there's no bokeh in this picture), as well as making your pictures look not so awkward.
See what I mean? Awkward.....
And not awkward.
Really awaward....
Really not awkward.
Another extra way to help you improve your photography is to get a better camera. The camera I have is a Canon PowerShot SX130 IS. I got mine on ebay for $60, but I've seen them go for less.
One last extra tip I have for you is to mess with your settings. This picture has the settings all on auto.
This has the white balance on cloudy. This is the setting I use for all my pictures.
This one has the white balance on cloudy and the color setting on vivid. This is the setting I used to use until about a month ago. I started to really not like it because it made my dolls look too orange, so I stopped using it.
I hope some of you try the zooming tip!!!
~Kaitlyn
This is a great tip! I've definitely noticed how zooming in can help your pictures look so much better :)
ReplyDelete~Jaclynn~
Thanks for the tip! I also like messing around with the zoom and white balance.
ReplyDeleteAnna
Great tips! I've noticed you actually sort of demonstrated 2 tips in one with your zoom tip! Zooming in also eliminates too much background clutter, which also makes it looks even better! :)
ReplyDeleteI agree, Kaitlyn, this is a great tip! :) I found out last year that zooming is a great way to improve my photos. I love bokeh, too! ;)
ReplyDelete~Christian Homeschooer
Ooh! Great tip!:) I don't have a camera, but I still think that I can use it for my phone. Or at least try!;D
ReplyDelete-Emma-
This really helped. Thanks kaitlyn!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, YES!!! I was fooling around with my camera one day, too, and discovered how zooming improved my pictures. I wondered by I hadn't tried it before! Thank you for posting this! :D
ReplyDelete~Lizzy
Thank you for this tip! I stay close to my dolls quite often when I take photos of them instead of using the zoom. I did a photoshoot yesterday and today and used your tip and the photos came out so much better!
ReplyDeleteYour camera is similar to my mom's new camera that I use, a Canon PowerShot SX60 HS. :)
Thanks again!
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