PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS
Join a photography club and participate in their activities.
Learn how to shoot manually or priority - Even though you enjoy shooting on "program" or "automatic", understand f-stops, shutter speeds, exposure, and depth-of-field for those difficult or unusual situations.
Get close - do not allow too much dead space in the frame.
Use a tripod or a monopod - especially in low light or when using a telephoto lenses or doing macro photography. Even the smallest movements of the camera while the shutter is open can translate to inferior quality.
Understanding lighting - natural and artificial - use of flash, both indoors and outdoors.
Learn and practice composition - Try different angles and focal lengths and move around, get down low, climb up higher, and see the difference in the outcome.
Know about filters. Using a "polarizing" filter, for example cuts glare and reflections, removes the glare from windows, and deepens the colors of landscapes as well as coats of animals.
Understand the use of gray cards in photography.
Have fun - Do not get so serious that you forget to have fun. Play around, try different things, and do not be afraid to have a bunch of throwaways
PIXEL TO PRINT CHART
3x5 900X1500
4X6 1200X1800
5X7 1500X2100
8X10 2400X3000
9X16 2700X4800
