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Thank you Kazz
Thank you Kazz. for you kind comment on my strawberry thread
Now digital photography is well established and editing even easier the individual does not have to rely on professionals to take a good photo.
Some point out that you need expensive cameras and lenses to take a good photo, well that is not right. it is not the camera that takes the photo it is the person behind the camera that does, a camera only does what it has been programmed to do.
some say you need qualifications to take a good photo, utter rubbish. Going to educational lessons in photography only teaches you what others have already done. If you consider all the great painters in the past their pictures are worth £Ms , ask what those are worth who try and copy their style? nothing in comparison .
Nowadays youtube can teach most of what one wants to know and it is free advice
How to learn to take a photo well just look around. Magazines are full of
"professional" photos, so are shop displays -hoardings -buses etc etc.
Don't look at the subject so much as to how it was taken, was it a low down upwards looking shot or visa versa, what angle was the subject taken at ? what else was in the photo -how was the eye drawn towards the main point of the photo.
There are tricks of course like everything else. Think of a photo like a page on a book, get to the end of a line and you have to start again on the left.
A photo believe it or not is similar, the eye automatically starts looking briefly on the left ending or the right. This is where the picture stops by having say a tree or some subject there.
Also to give some idea of distance try and get in shot a nearby overhanging branch or something in the foreground as well.
example
here not only a tree on the left but a tree on the right to create a tunnel view effect and a bonus of the ballistrade to add depth to the view. This is what is called "the rule of thirds", as it can easily be seen in three sections, trees on the left-centre view and trees on the right. This gives the photo balance and a building wanting to be explored
I could go on but the jist of the above gives some idea. it is a question of looking not just seeing that makes the difference.
Always remember you will never ever see bad photos taken by a true professional, their reputation is at stake.
The real test is if you like the photo, if others like it consider it a bonus