In my very first tip, I recommend moving closer to your subject. Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer.

It works especially well on faces because when you fill the frame with your subject’s face, there is less clutter to draw the viewer’s eye away from the pleasing face.
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What is Opportunity Photography? It’s when you take images of a subject you didn’t expect to take images of when you picked up your camera.

One of my subscribers, Jeffrey Balliettmebeli, sent me some wonderful images of a fox that he saw in his back yard. Jeff was taking his camera to photograph a nesting hummingbird, but saw the fox first.

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Sometimes, when our photos turn out blurry, it’s because of a focus problem. Your camera has set the focus point on the wrong part of the image. An example is in the image on the right. The camera’s focus point is outside leaving our subject (the boy) blurry and out of focus.
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I have some rather active nephews and when I try to take a snap of them indoors I usually end up with some blurry body parts in my photos. But why does this happen and how can it be fixed?
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Sometimes some of the subjects in your shots are in focus, but other subjects that are a little closer or further away are out of focus.

This is an unwanted side effect of having what’s called a ‘Shallow Depth Of Field’.
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