PHOTOGRAPHY 101

Lisa O’Donnell

Some of the most important things about photography:

Read your camera manual. Try all the features on your camera.

Take lots and lots of pictures. You’ll never know what you’ll get unless you try.

How to take pictures of people Turn subjects away from the sun.

Have the sun to the side or move to the shade otherwise you’ll get squinting and harsh shadows on the face.

Best time of day to shoot…the golden hour

Check your background for distracting things

Composition Definition: The way in which the

different parts that make up a photograph or picture are arranged.

Instead of thinking of composition as a set of rules, think of composition in terms of tools you have in your composition tool belt that you can pull out to make more creative photographs.

Symmetry

Rule of Thirds

Perspective

Perspective

Silhouette

Filling the frame

Selective Focusing

Emphasizing Texture

Emphasizing movement

Emphasizing color (or no color)

Emphasizing Architecture

Emphasizing Landscape

Final bits of advice…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Take lots and lots and lots of pictures!