Frequently Used Photography Techniques

Whether you have just got a new camera, or photography was always a hobby, there’s always more to learn than you think. Photography tips help you polish your skills and move to a much higher level. While shooting indoors, or even while shooting on the streets, you still have to learn a few techniques. Using these few simple techniques, you will know how to take professional photos. More than anything, these techniques will help provide your photograph an elegant look. More than leaving others impressed, you will be inspired, yourself. Here is a list of techniques that are most often used in the field of photography and that you must know of:-

• Motion Blur photography

Motion blur pictures can be obtained by using a camera that has a low shutter speed. It is often used to highlight a sense of speed and capture a moving object. This type is used mostly for sports photography. Also, using Adobe Photoshop will help you create this edit artificially. Motion blur photographs keep the object in focus and blur out the background. In order to capture a motion blur image make sure you know the following such that, a fast shutter speed a sharper focus on the subject. A slow shutter speed on the other end will blur the moving object.

• Panoramic photography

A panoramic picture is very often used today. Sometimes known as ‘wide format ‘ photography. Moreover, a photographer using this technique can be captured on your smartphones as well. If you use a tripod you can take a series of photographs and then merge of all them together. If you put enough effort into clicking the pictures, a natural final photo is a guarantee. When you take the pictures that will be combined to make the panorama, use manual settings, manual exposure, manual focus, and a manual white balance, will provide a sense of consistency to your photos.

• Silhouette photography

A silhouette is basically a way of conveying drama, mystery, and emotion in a picture. Silhouettes are simple photographs that always convey a story. The best time to take a silhouette is either too early or very late in the day, with a background brighter than the subject, in open space.  A faster shutter speed will help capture a darker image and a lower one will capture a brighter image. It is a very simple technique. All you need is the right camera settings, the right subject, and appropriate lighting.

• High-speed photography

High-speed photography puts a standstill to those moments that cannot even be seen by the naked eye, like the splash of water. This technique is not meant for everyone, because it requires specialized equipment, skill, and persistence. It requires almost 1/20,000^th of a second exposure time to freeze a moment. All you need is a tripod, a narrow aperture, and flash. It is a tricky technique, but the results are stunning. Therefore, the photographer needs a lot of patience because the best moments don’t follow every minute.

• Infrared photography

Not the great kind of technique. They do not have any peculiar features. They are not dramatic or beautiful. Moreover, a lot of processing is needed post-shoot. Infrared or IR is used to explore the world of the unseen. A human eye cannot see infrared light and hence, this technique of photography helps viewers do so. IR light can produce really surreal effects. It can make your skin look milky, eyes little ghostly, black clothes either grey or white depending on fthe abric of light and blue skies give a dramatic experience.