Photography Field Trip - Chinatown

Houses built around the 40's are normally walk-up units
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Some Photo Tips:

·        Try to take candid pictures without Flash.

·        Try not to take pictures with the camera facing the sun. You will not get good pictures. But if you have to, in particular taking a portrait, then turn on the flash for the face.

·        Place your main subject with the one-third rule.

·        For those having trouble holding the camera steady or if you want a sharper image, try setting the digital camera program to “Sport” mode.

·        Set the image quality to high. That is, the image should have an image size of near to or more than 1MB (resolution). As a guide, if you want to reproduce any picture to paper print (post card size), it should at least have an image size of 300K bytes.

·       Pictures tell a thousand words.  So, how do the professionals do it? View their works and learn from them. Pictures form a very important part in communicating with us. Every one of us sees and interprets a picture differently.  A picture/photo is like the music and the art. It has depth, space and evokes our feelings besides bringing the facts in front of our eyes.