Taking+Great+Pictures

=Dr. Fowler's Slant on Good Pictures=

These are in no particular order and I really sort of learned them by trial and error. I have had a camera of some sort since I was 8 years old. I am not sure how many pictures my mom and dad got developed when I was growing up that were of the floor, the dog or cat, my feet or hands or many other odd not very photogenic objects, but they always got the pictures developed for me. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I first got my hands on a digital camera with a 3.5 floppy disk. Then, in the last decade, digital cameras have become smaller and smaller with digital pictures becoming bigger and bigger; and even better for teachers, the prices of the cameras have come down considerably, too.

So here are my tips for good pictures.


 * 1. GET CLOSER!!! This is always a good idea.**
 * 2. Don't center everything. Make the subject off to one side or the other. It looks better and not so posed.**
 * 3. Take LOTS of pictures. With digital cameras, you don't waste film. You can print as many as you like or want and then delete the rest.**
 * 4. Buy as big a memory card as you can afford. You don't want to be in the middle of something and run out of room on your storage card.**
 * 5. Experiment with different views--from the floor up, from a chair down, from one side of something or the other. Use all the different view/settings that are on your camera. Play!**
 * 6. Take pictures of people rather than things. They are much more interesting.**
 * 7. Know how to turn your flash off and on for different effects. Don't always depend on autoflash.**
 * 8. Take a picture everyday and participate in a 365 photo shoot. I did this one year for only about half the year, but I learned lots about my camera and taking pictures.**
 * 9. Finally, share them! Print them out at Walmart or Target or the drug store and put them in frames. Make digital greeting cards and videos. Tell digital stories with your pictures.**
 * 10. Take your camera with you everywhere. You can't take a picture without it.**