Really great tips Soni ji. They should help all of us. Please continue to give us benefit of your expertise. We are lucky to have people of all shades of life ......."sharing the same passion, with camera in hand and wanting to shoot flowers.....
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Dr. Hiren B. Soni < [email protected]> wrote: > Basic Photo Techniques (Urbanscape) > > 1. Always speak to your subject, so that they will not feel awkward. > 2. Capture Human Interaction – e.g. A customer bargains with shop-keeper. > 3. Find Ways of being Unseen – Not to make your subject too much > conscious of you & your camera. e.g. Capture an aerial view > from balcony or shoot from your waist using a wide-angle lens. > 4. Focus on the eye of the subject. > 5. Look for the Ironic – Capture paradoxical moments with ironical > situations in around your subject. e.g. Juggler show. > 6. Play with Shutter-speed - Use a fast shutter-speed of around 1/125 > seconds to make deliberate use of motion blur, if your subject > is sharp. > 7. Respect Your Subject & his Wishes - In ‘Make a Photo’, capture > your subject at his wish only. > 8. Sense of Comfort - Be comfortable with your subject & surroundings. > 9. Slow Sync Flash (SSF) – Use SSF for action-packed portraits to > combine slow shutter speed and a burst of flash. > 10. Use the Blurred Backgrounds - To avoid clutter by using wide > aperture of f/2.8; In case of basic kit lens, try zooming into the > telephoto-end of your lens and use an aperture of f/5.6. > 11. Use the Urban Element – Capture environmental portraits to include > its proximity. > > ----------------------------- > DR. HIREN B. SONI > [M.Sc. (Zoology); Ph.D. (Environmental Science)] > Assistant Professor [Animal Science (Zoology) / > Environmental Biotechnology] > Biodiversity Specialist (Ornithology & Wildlife Biology) > > E-mail: [email protected] > Tel: 02692-251217 (R), 09426023901 (M) > CV: http://sites.google.com/site/hirenbsoni > Blog: http://gujarat-biodiversity.blogspot.com > Pix: http://gujarat-nature-pix.blogspot.com > Moderator: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gujarat_Nature_Pix > Community: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/photocommunity > > "Solutions to Problems depend upon Knowledge which only > Research can provide" - H. Kalmbach >
