Photos Are Ruined By This…
Ok, we haunt the camera shops, try out and buy all the latest gadgetry, read all the photo magazines and books. Finally, we load some film into our camera, (or insert a new memory stick) find a suitable subject and start firing away!
You anxiously run down to the photo lab to get your film developed, (or spend a few hours trying to remember how to download your photos into the computer- who can see anything on that tiny screen anyway?). Finally, we get the results.
Horrors! There’s a huge branch coming right out of the head of our gorgeous model! Or kids playing in the background – or cars going by and obscuring our pretty backdrop. Didn’t notice the trash can off to the side, did you? You know, the one that is ruining EVERY SHOT!
It is so easy to get focused on our model, her pose, her smile and so on that we completely forget the rest of the scene we are photographing. It’s easy to do and every photographer has done it – hundreds of times.
Photography is a very technical art! We have to worry about the light, the f-stop, the shutter speed, film speed and so on. Next we throw in the models’ pose, smile, eyes – and now we’re expected to notice the trash cans, kids and cars in the background?
You bet. We need to add one more item on our mental checklist. It only takes a second to scan your eye all the way around the edges of the viewfinder and look for potential problems. It’s actually pretty easy – if you make it a habit.
Do whatever it takes to FORCE yourself to consciously slow down and take a second to let your eye scan all the way around the edges of the viewfinder. But that’s not all. Consider those trees or light poles way off in the background, are they going to be blurred out or will they be sharp enough to be a factor in the final print. Can you move and shoot from a different angle?
Does your background include a street? Watch out for traffic – auto or pedestrian. Can you move to a different location, or change shooting angles and eliminate the traffic? Will you have to wait for a break in the traffic to get your shot?
True, these tips seem to be pretty obvious. If it weren’t a very expensive – every day problem I wouldn’t have bothered writing this article. Spend the extra second or two and you will save a lot of money on wasted prints.
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