Photography Phriday
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Happy Photo Phriday everyone!!
Maria aka Muss here! This is my very first blog post here at ScrapMatters and I have a little tip for you. It will make you think a little before you snap, but that’s good actually! It might help you to make your pictures more attractive!
My camera is Olympus C5050Zoom, so it obviously has a zoom in it. That’s what drains the batteries right away when you use it! LOL And today we will try to find out: to zoom or not to zoom… There is a difference!
OK, here’s the scenery: I have two toy cars standing on the floor and I marked the two shooting spots. I wanted to take pictures of my kids, but they just don’t know words ‘stand still’. Toys are much better models! LOL
So, I’m on spot No 1 and zoom trying to get a nice close up of my model. What happens? If you zoom, the objects look closer to each other, so they are pretty much in the same size. How can you use this effect? For example when taking a picture of people standing near each other… When you step back and zoom it seems like they are closer to each other, it makes the composition of the shot more compact.
Now move on to the spot No 2. That’s the place where I got the grey car the same size and… hey, what happened to another one?! Yes, it scaled down! It doesn’t look the same size anymore! It’s magic! So if you want your objects to look in proper correlation to each other, just like we see them in real life, you’d better not zoom and just make a step forward, come closer! It makes a difference!
About the focus… I was shooting in aperture priority mode (don’t ask, it’s another blog post LOL). So if you choose another or just shoot in automatic mode, you might have both of your objects in focus.
So… what are you waiting for? Grab your camera and have fun!! When you get to know you camera even a little more, you feel so powerful, don’t you?
Use your power and happy shooting!
Hugs,
Maria.
