Photo Tips

Have put together a list of tips for photographing you pets. Hope you find it useful.

Photo tips for dogs
A few handy tips and hints for photographing your beloved pooch:

Blurry pictures:
To keep pictures sharp:
Use sports setting or action setting on the camera if it has it, it uses a fast shutter speed.
Use the flash, even outdoors. The flash lasts for a very short time, freezing the action.
Camera shake:
Hold your camera steady. Difficult on compact cameras with lcd screens as they are held away from the body, so don’t zoom in too much, hold the camera closer and if necessary guess the rough direction of your dog.
Rest your arms against a fence or a post.
Zooming in will exaggerate shake and movement.


Composition:
Chopping the legs off etc.
Look in the view finder or screen and check what you want in the shot is there.
Mistakes often happen when people put the focus point in the centre of the shot, focus on the face and push the button.
Use tracking if available use continuous focusing if available.
Focus on the eyes half push trigger and keep it down recompose push trigger all the way down.
The eyes should always be sharp.


Clutter.
Look around your picture check for rubbish and clutter. Checking the screen is important as your eyes will only see your beloved dog.
Get down to your dogs level you will get better focus and less clutter most of the time

Have someone with you:
Your dog will want to play not pose if you are the only one there someone else playing or taking the picture is always best.

Have fun with it

although even after that I'm still gonna be useless!

The links below are for Amateur Photographer forum

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?36-Help-Team
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?21-Camera-Chat


Comes down to budget in the end.
Get into a camera shop and try them out - the one that feels right is usually the on to go for. Some cameras simply don't sit in the hand comfortably, and it varies from person to person.
Sony do some good machines, and the other obvious choices are Nikon and Canon.

If you went for Nikon, skip the entry level D3100 and go for the D5100 which is about £100.00 (UK) more but is twice the camera. Bear in mind that it's the lenses which really matter, go for the best you can afford. Good luck

Ooh Kathy stumbled across this haven't seen it before, great tips   

Living this Kathy thanks xx

Wow, that was from a while ago, thanks for reading though the tips are still as valuable