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Taking pictures of nature
The great outdoors offers a lot of irresistible subjects: landscapes, gardens and individual flowers, trees, waterfalls, and animals. The next time you explore Mother Nature, take these helpful tips with you and bring back some amazing pictures.
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Step into the light
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| Look for interesting combinations of color, light, shadow and texture |
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| Morning light gives you warmer, yellow colors |
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| Late afternoon, or evening light provides colors with a hint of red to full red |
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Prevent flare-ups
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| Sunlight can hit the camera lens and create flare – those hexagonal shapes that veil over the image |
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| Use a hat or your hand to shade your camera |
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| Find a location where something like a tree or its limbs can block the direct sun |
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A new angle on life
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| Sometimes the best photo is the one you just walked by |
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| Look up, look down, look all around you |
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| Take a few wide-angle shots of the area |
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| Move in close to capture the details of a flower or bark of a tree by using macro mode on your camera |
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Explore your camera modes
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| Landscape mode – optimizes the camera settings for landscape photos and capturing objects at great distances |
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| Macro mode – perfect for taking extreme close-up photos |
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| Panorama stitch mode – combines up to three shots together into one large picture |
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Cut the clutter
Unrelated elements compete for the viewer’s attention and draw the eye away from the center of interest
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| Fill the frame with your subject by moving in close to exclude any extraneous elements |
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| Take vertical pictures of vertical subjects like trees, flowers, and mountains |
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| Shoot from a very low or very high angle to help the subject stand out |
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| If practical, move the subject to a better location with a cleaner backdrop |
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Capture the full view
Take dramatic shots of beautiful landscapes. Capture the whole scene, be it a landscape or plunging waterfall using the panoramic mode.
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Location, location, location
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| Even city slickers can find opportunities for nature photography – simply head to the park |
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| Do a web search of your region, or a location that you plan to visit on vacation |
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| Search for gardens, wildlife rehab centers, zoos and various nature preserves |
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