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MOUNTAINLIFEBLUEMOUNTAINS
SPRING2016
UP
FRONT
Everybody (and theirmom) is a photographer these
days.We’ve all got a camera onus at all times, photos
are easier to share than ever before, and the better your
images are themore likes you’ll get!Awesome, right? So
howdo yougo about taking amazingphotographs at all
times?Here are some tips todo just that.
THROWOUTYOURCAMERAMANUAL.
Seriously.Who
needs it? Soboring. F-stop this, shutter speed that.Who
cares?Go to step two and you’ll know all youneed to
know about your camera.
SETTO P.
Hopefully your camera has a dial with a bigP
on it.This obviously stands for Perfect Picture. Set it and
forget it. Bingobango. If your camera doesn’t have a giant
P somewhere, look for the green rectangle. Close enough.
SPRAYAND PRAY.
Throw the rules out thewindow. Rule
of thirds?Who cares?Composition?Why bother?The
spray-and-pray techniqueworks by the same principle
as asking every girl in the bar for her number; eventually
somethingwill work out.Grab a bigmemory card, set
your camera toburstmode and fire away.Youdon’t even
need to look through the viewfinder!
ALWAYS SHOOT FROM EYE LEVEL.
This is the same
vantage point that every human since the beginningof
humankindhas viewed theworld from. Sowhy bother
getting low, highor anywhere inbetween?
FIX IT IN POST.
Aw, Photoshop.Thatwonderful turd-
polishingpiece of software.Don’t fret if all your images
needhours of post-processing to look good. EvenAnsel
Adams usedPhotoshop-like techniques inhis darkroom.
VARIETY ISTHE SPICEOF LIFE.
That’swhat they say, but
if you’ve found something thatworkswhy change it?
LEVELOUT.
Just because the horizon is level in real life
doesn’tmean it needs tobe in a photograph. 45degrees?
Noproblem.Get creative!
–Colin Field
TIPSFORCAPTURING
AMAZING
IMAGES
“Tripods?Why are youguys using tripods?”Photo clinic on theBrucePeninsula. COLIN FIELD
