Make your Photography go further
For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you may have picked up that I’m quite keen when it comes to photography. It started when I bought a top of the range 1.3MegaPixels Olympus digital camera camera in 1999. Ever since the camera could be hooked up to the computer I’ve been happily snapping.
The cameras today are of great quality and you can achieve a lot with some very simple techniques. Equally, you can go to a studio or hook-up with a either a friend or a pro to capture some fantastic images that you can use as part of your marketing and presentation literature.
You’ve got to be quite skilled to start do self-portrait photoshoots, but for the hardcore types out there it is do’able and you can save a lot of messing about but you do need a good eye for what works well and what needs improving.
Generally if you’re trying to take pictures outside of natural daylight you may be as well to organise for a professional to capture the images. Equally if you do have good natural light you can probably get away with quite a lot. The one thing you will never get away from is that more often than not you do need someone else to hold the camera.
Buddying up with someone can be a great thing to do. It’s a great way to boot strap your photography and with some professional retouching those images can find their way in to all your marketing literature.
The one activity everyone can take part in is simply producing a set of drafts to show a photographer the kind of images that you would like from a shoot. This can be a lot of fun and a real giggle. The more direction you can give someone the more value you will get from your shoot. When you do this try out as much as you can, you may just get some absolute corkers.
I’d like to recommend three blogs to read:
• How to differentiate yourself online
• Face’s do sell Product
• A High Quality Cut
Each of these blogs focus on what it takes to actually use your images to better effect. The one common thread is about having the target object in the photo extracted from the photo and set on to a specific background, transparency or one white.
This is well worth thinking about. Clean up what you have and make it work to better effect. How many photos do you need? I’d say, probably three or four really good ones.
If you want to share your photography experiences, feel free to comment.
wendy says:
I like going to airshows and would love to take pictures of the planes, what sort of camera would you recommend? At the moment I only have a small compact camera but have managed to take a few pictures of the planes with it, but I need a faster camera
thanks