Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer to your subject. Filling the frame entirely with your subject will make a terrific difference to your photos.
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Some Digital Cameras are marketed with both an Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom capability. If you’ve used a film camera, you’ll be used to optical zoom. Optical zoom uses the lens of the camera (the optics) to bring the subject closer. Digital zoom uses clever software to digitally enlarge a portion of the image - thus simulating optical zoom.
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Here’s a really important tip: Rather than placing your main subject in the middle of the screen, place it to one side and ensure something interesting is in the background that fills the remainder of the image.This can be especially effective if the background has the same theme. For example, if photographing a child opening a Christmas present, frame them to one side and have the Christmas Tree with unopened presents filling the rest of the image.
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Have you ever had that annoying ‘red eye’ problem with your photos? You’re out at night and take some snaps of your friends. Unfortunately when you look at the photos the next day (or worse, once they are printed) you see a huge red blob in your friends’ eyes.
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t’s always very frustrating! You have a great shot lined up, and press the shutter button. But your camera takes an extra second to think about the photo before it opens the shutter. By the time the photo is actually taken, your prefect shot has vanished! Little Johnny has left the frame and you end up with a blank photo!
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The ability to erase your photos is one of the major advantages of a digital camera. You’d be mad not to use this to the fullest extent!

Take MANY more shots than you think you need, and then erase those that aren’t right.
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Some manufactures give you a feature that can imprint the current date and time onto your image. Or they offer to imprint other stats like the current exposure settings, or shot number.
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The LCD monitor will show you what your final image will look like. It won’t be as large in size as your final image, but you will get enough of a feel for the image to know how your shot will turn out.

If you have a DSLR camera, you normally can’t see the image in the LCD while you are composing the shot, so it’s even more important to check the image after you have taken it.
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If your images always turn out all blurry, it may mean your lens needs a clean. Most high end cameras come with threads to which you can attach an UltraViolet (UV) filter. This helps to protect the lens from not only dirt, but scratches. Cheaper cameras don’t have threads so remember to cover the lens when not in use and try not to touch it.
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A lot of the technique of photography is not choosing WHAT you photograph, but HOW you photograph it.

Here’s an example that dramatically shows this. Below is an image uploaded to the Digital Photo Forum of a bridge towards the Adriatic Sea.
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