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The Secret Behind Capturing Professional Photographs

Are you an amateur photographer and keen on knowing the secret of capturing flawless pictures like a professional photographer?

If you are passionate about photography and enthusiastic about using your digital camera with optimum effect, then read on. In this age of cutting-edge technology, digital cameras have gained an exceptional foothold in the international gadget market.

Today, we can find digital cameras almost in every hand. However, it is not a digital camera that necessarily ensures a brilliant photograph. The person who operates the digital camera is largely responsible for the outcome. Whether you are a newbie or a seasoned photographer, the following tips can help you improve your photography skills on a digital camera.

There are primarily two important aspects to taking good photographs with a digital camera such as proper exposure and sharp focus, although both of them are closely related to each other. Hence, most of the modern digital cameras have the automatic feature to facilitate a good photography output. However, sometimes the auto exposure technology fails to read the scene correctly leading to wrong exposure and bad photograph. Therefore, it is important for you to learn how to use the exposure compensation feature of digital cameras.

The shutter speed of your digital camera greatly affects its output. Shutter speed of a digital camera essentially means how long the shutter stays open which is usually expressed in fraction of a second such as 1/30th or 1/400th. Typically, the slower the shutter speed, the higher the chances of the picture becoming blurred.

So, if you have set your digital camera in the automatic mode, make sure the shutter speed is 1/125th. This is because it`s tough to expect a good picture with slower shutter speed. Conversely, if you want to take photograph of a moving object, the shutter speed of your digital camera needs to be set at 1/400th to nullify the motion. Besides, if the automatic mode of your digital camera doesn`t show a shutter speed which is quick enough, you should switch it to shutter priority to manual.

There is another critical aspect to taking good pictures with you digital camera, i.e., aperture setting. Explained in a layman term, it basically means how wide the shutter opens when you take a photograph. There is a trade-off between shutter speed and aperture setting of a digital camera.

For instance, if you increase the shutter speed to get avoid the blurring effect in your pictures, the shutter should open wide enough to allow enough light. This could considerably affect the results. Hence, if you want to maximize the depth of the field, take the pictures with a slower shutter speed. If your purpose is to shoot objects that are not moving, you should set a small aperture. Incase, you are shooting a moving object, choose higher speed.

If you are wondering what the secret behind some professional nature and landscape photographs is, then you will be surprised to know that they are taken on a tripod to minimize the camera movements. Shooting under inadequate light condition requires slow shutter speed and use of a tripod. Also you can use a tripod with a small aperture and slow shutter speed to shoot better photographs on a sunny day.

Another secret to capturing magical photographs with you digital cameras lies in following your object. Try planting your feet firmly and bracing your arms strongly against your sides. Then follow the moving object by slowly turning your body. This can dramatically improve the performance of the pictures although the background might get a bit blurred.

Capturing good photographs with your digital camera requires experience and creative imagination. However you should learn the tricks of using all the features of your digital camera to produce astonishing pictures. After all, a digital camera is only as good as the pictures that you capture. Hence, know your camera inside out.

About the Author
This article can be accessed in portuguese from the Article section of page www.polomercantil.com.br/camera-digital.php

Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for http://www.polomercantil.com.br/


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Forgiveness: Acceptance and Letting Go

Have you ever noticed the difference in people who are able to easily let go of resentment and forgive, and those who stay in anger and blame?

What I have noticed is that those who continue to stay in blame and resentment are often people who see themselves as victims of other people's choices. I've noticed that people who stay angry at someone are generally people who are very controlling and believe that they can control someone else's behavior through punishment - anger, withdrawal, withholding, blame, righteousness, judgment, and so on.

There is a big difference between forgiving someone and wanting to spend time with that person. For example, if find out that your partner has lied to you in a major way, you might decide to leave that relationship and not spend any more time with that person. You might decide that it is not in your highest good to be with someone whom you cannot trust to be honest with you. Leaving that person may be what is best for you.

However, if you hang on to anger, blame and resentment, what happens to you? You end up feeling miserable.

Whenever someone behaves in a manner that I find unacceptable, I attempt to understand the good reasons behind the unacceptable behavior. Is this person a very scared and insecure person? Did this person come from an unloving background? Is this person a very young soul, doing the best he or she can but is limited in ability? I do not take others' behavior personally, knowing that their behavior is coming from their fears and beliefs and actually has nothing to do with me.

Even though I choose compassion rather than judgment when others behave in unacceptable ways, this does not mean that I want to continue to be around the person. I can fully understand why the person acted as he or she did, yet still decide that being around this person is not in my highest good. I can fully forgive that person, which means that I am not carrying around blame and resentment, without wanting to continue to be around that person.

If you forgive but choose to not be around someone, it is important to be aware of your intent in not being around that person. Your intent is either controlling or loving.

If your intent is to control, then you hope that by not being around that person, he or she will learn their lesson and change their behavior. You have not really decided to end the relationship. You have a secret hope that by distancing yourself, you can have control over whether or not this person changes.

Leaving with the intent to control can lead to you getting stuck in misery, waiting for that person to change.

If your intent is to be loving to yourself, then you have decided that not being around this person is in your highest good. You are ready to move on, rather than being attached to this person changing. You have fully forgiven this person and are now taking loving care of yourself by letting go of all hope of this relationship working.

If someone behaves in a way that is not acceptable to you, this does not mean that you need to leave the relationship. It does mean that you need to accept that it may happen again and that there is nothing you can do about it. You have no control over another's choices. Again, hanging on to blame and resentment will only make you miserable. If you decide to stay, then you need to decide how to take loving care of yourself in the face of the other's unacceptable behavior. When you are truly taking loving care of yourself, then you will find you can easily forgive the other person.

The blessing of forgiveness is that it allows you to let go of life-draining resentment and open to love and joy.



About the Author
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author
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