The Digital Photography Companion

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Some of the most rewarding pictures you’ll ever record will be of children. Like the child-

rearing process itself, kid photography requires patience—but the results can far sur-

pass the effort.

Get close and get low for effective kid shots. Photo by Paige Green.

Create Powerful Landscape Images

You could spend your entire lifetime studying how to make great landscape images.

ere are, however, a few key techniques that will improve your nature shots right away

while you learn the subtleties of the craft. Keep these few tips in the back of your mind

while shooting.

FIRST STEPS

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Work with “magic light” Landscape pictures shot two hours after sunrise and two

hours before sunset look better, especially with digital cameras that sometimes have

a hard time taming harsh midday sun.

Keep your compositions simple Clutter is the bane of powerful landscape imag-

ery. Look for simple, powerful compositions, and skip the rest.

is image employs a few helpful landscape techniques: a low horizon line provided

a “big sky,” late afternoon shooting took advantage of “magic light,” and

capturing a high resolution allowed for cropping to fine-tune the composition.

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