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Just bought a new camera? And very excited to start taking stills with your new toy?

But alas, why does the picture not look as good as you wished? Below are for 4 new tricks to taking more fascinating and memorable stills.

Trick 1 – Try out different camera exposure settings

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By exploring the exposure settings of your camera, you may have footage looking more brilliant with 0.5 to 2 stops underexposed in bright surroundings, and scenes appearing more clear with some overexposure. By tuning of the exposure level, you can create pictures which can bring out different moods from folks viewing it. Thats why the quote “A Picture Says A Thousand Words” is very true indeed! For amateurs, try out bracketing (i.e: Take the same picture with different exposure levels) and take your favorite pick from them.

Trick 2 – Bring out some creative blur in pictures

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By introducing some well-planned blur in stills, you can bring across certain critical features, while using the rest as good complement, providing an overall nice touch. This may be done in 2 basic types. First type is depth-of-field blur. Varying the lens aperture between 0.4 to 1.4 can create a wonderful, soft background blur which bring sharpened focus to the topic in the foreground.

Second type is movement blur. Done by setting the camera exposure on shutter priority, and keep it slow in order to capture interesting streaks as the topic moves in front of the camera.

Trick 3 – Create something out of nothing

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This exercise encourages you to take a step back and reconsider how you can take glorious footage with things you already encounter on a day-to-day basis.

One approach is to create your shot about the common elements around you like lines, space and patterns. This will mean anything from the roads to the bridges, the trees, the railings, etc. You start to see more possibilities and room for creativity.

Trick 4 – Take Unique Photographs

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Try and avoid taking pictures from already popular places where everybody else has taken before as it won’t be fresh. Try out new extraordinary photography (for example: underwater photography), or it may be as easy as shooting through thick glasses for that additional 3D feel, or shooting reflections of objects in water or other reflective objects.

If you can master some of these tips, you’re well on your way on being a professional photographer.

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