Saturday, July 12, 2008
How To Improve Your Photos
I am speaking for women like me. My opinion - only my opinion, is this:
1 Show a face photo.
2 Smile.
3 Nothing without a shirt unless you are in the sea or on a boat.
4 Shirt and tie is better than a t-shirt. Dinner jacket and bow tie is better than a shirt and tie.
Women's Photos
1 Show a face photo.
2 Wear lipstick.
And smile.
3 if photographed from above (eg by somebody standing whilst you are sitting on a chair or bed) make sure that the photo does not elongate your nose and hide your upper lip so your nose seems to run into your mouth. 4 If you've got smart clothes but your face and hair still look frumpy and frizzy, go to the hairdresser for cut, or colour, or styling, or all three, and get lots of shots taken that day while the hair styling is fresh. Or wash your hair before the photo is taken.
Check in the mirror that it looks right. Edit to eliminate stray hair sticking up or across your forehead. This can be done in a photo programme. You simply copy a few squares of colour from the adjoining area - painted wall or forehead. Superimpose the background colour over the stray hair you want to eliminate. I just got a MacBook which makes cropping photos even easier. If you have a friend who has a camera or phone which takes pictures or video, they can store them on their computer and crop them and then email them to you.
Editing
I watched a TV programme on professional photos. One woman paid £1500 for photos for her work. The photographer edited the pictures to make her larger in some areas and slimmer in others. All done on the computers.
You can edit pictures for simpler improvements. Remove glare. Remove distracting item in the background by cropping.
Frame
You can insert your picture in a coloured frame. Or draw a frame. Even if you do it freehand, you can draw the left side of a square or oval or heart shape or arch. Then reverse and copy so that you have the two sides matching,
Women's Photos
1 Show a face photo.
2 Wear lipstick.
And smile.
3 if photographed from above (eg by somebody standing whilst you are sitting on a chair or bed) make sure that the photo does not elongate your nose and hide your upper lip so your nose seems to run into your mouth. 4 If you've got smart clothes but your face and hair still look frumpy and frizzy, go to the hairdresser for cut, or colour, or styling, or all three, and get lots of shots taken that day while the hair styling is fresh. Or wash your hair before the photo is taken.
Check in the mirror that it looks right. Edit to eliminate stray hair sticking up or across your forehead. This can be done in a photo programme. You simply copy a few squares of colour from the adjoining area - painted wall or forehead. Superimpose the background colour over the stray hair you want to eliminate. I just got a MacBook which makes cropping photos even easier. If you have a friend who has a camera or phone which takes pictures or video, they can store them on their computer and crop them and then email them to you.
Editing
I watched a TV programme on professional photos. One woman paid £1500 for photos for her work. The photographer edited the pictures to make her larger in some areas and slimmer in others. All done on the computers.
You can edit pictures for simpler improvements. Remove glare. Remove distracting item in the background by cropping.
Frame
You can insert your picture in a coloured frame. Or draw a frame. Even if you do it freehand, you can draw the left side of a square or oval or heart shape or arch. Then reverse and copy so that you have the two sides matching,
Labels: cropping photos, hairdresser, improve photos, mirror
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Exellent advice, and a secret of good photographs is tight cropping. Fill the photo with the subject, whether a person, a flower, a building or whatever. You get more impact.
Before digital photographs I used to have my prints made 7x5 and then would crop them down to 6x4 for my photobooks. Everyone said how great my photos were. They weren't, I had just cropped them tightly!
If you take your photography seriously, then look at Adobe Lightroom Mac or Windows it is just under £200. If you can't afford that, then look at Google's Picasa Mac, Windows and Linux. It's free but nowhere near as good of course.
If your camera can shoot in RAW mode, use it. It is so much more forgiving when you try and change things, unlike jpg files.
Hope this helps budding photographers.
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Before digital photographs I used to have my prints made 7x5 and then would crop them down to 6x4 for my photobooks. Everyone said how great my photos were. They weren't, I had just cropped them tightly!
If you take your photography seriously, then look at Adobe Lightroom Mac or Windows it is just under £200. If you can't afford that, then look at Google's Picasa Mac, Windows and Linux. It's free but nowhere near as good of course.
If your camera can shoot in RAW mode, use it. It is so much more forgiving when you try and change things, unlike jpg files.
Hope this helps budding photographers.
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