Art Tips, Tricks, and More...11
You
never know when you might hear an art tip about something that is just
the suggestion that will solve an issue for you or help you and your
work in some way. This is an ongoing series of tips and I
would LOVE to have your suggestions as well!
Art Tips, Advice, Suggestions
Mobile Phone Photography - from Tom Payne
Usually, in the PWAS Art Tips post we have 12 tips. This one has 16 because they are all part of a class PWAS Member Tom Payne held once.
If your intention is to take a quality photograph with a mobile phone or DSLR, consider the following tips:
- Keep the lens clean.
- Activate the grid in your phone app if possible.
- Hold the phone with both hands when you are shooting. Rotate the camera to a position that is comfortable to shoot from. Take note of where the lens is in relation to your fingers!
- Get close and fill the frame with your subject. When you think you’re close enough, take a picture and then…get closer and take more.
- Zooming in too far can reduce the quality and sharpness of the photo.
- Look around and find places and shapes in which to frame your subject. Create a frame within a frame. Shoot through things (plants, doorways, boat portholes)
- Rule of Thirds - where the lines intersect and the three vertical x horizontal areas
- Leading Lines should direct the viewers eye toward the main subject.
- Rule of Odds. Odd numbers of objects are more interesting.
- Look for symmetry.
- Use editing software. (like Snapseed)
- Choose an unusual vantage point and angles. Walk around the subject. High, low, turn the camera, consider vertical or horizontal, multiple angles
- Think of what everyone else is shooting and then do the opposite.
- Lighting! Find the light source and move yourself and/or your subject. Watch out for backlighting. Especially important when on the water.
- The Golden Hour - early morning or late afternoon
- Add or remove things things in the photo that enhance the main subject.
Art Tips is a series of blog posts with 12 tips per post. See the rest of the Art Tips Series on this page for more tidbits of advice: https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/p/art.html
Send me YOUR art tips too or drop them in the comments below. AND let me know if you find an art tip here that you LOVE!
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Etsy site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.
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