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Camera Skills (Frame, Light, Inner Glow)

On 21st century, digital camera is almost with everyone. Professional cameraing is still necessary, yet, for ordinary people, with ordinary camera, we can still make an excellent picture. The following three common skills belong to every common people:

  • FrameThe scene is totally open and omni view in our human eye, but a photo is only a frame of the total. So, framing is a basic skill when shooting a picture. The position of the target in the frame and the ratio of its environment is crucial. As to how to, you'll know it by common sense (see right). You can also got the filling from a good movie. You just need to be aware that the "framing" for cameraing an important factor. 
  • LightYou can hold the snapshot button slightly to fix the focus and light, then you move the camera to other places. In this way you can get special lighting effect as This.
  • The inner glowWhether you shoot a scene or human / animal, you must catch the spirit. There should be an inner glow of that very moment on that very view, sometimes quite accidental, magic, see this.

 

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The meaning of travel and cameraing. The interaction of your heart and the object.

  • The meaning of traveling is not for bragging "I've been to Hawaii, this are my photos. I have also been there before ... " We are not traveling for show, our precious moments are those we were in there, the beautiful feeling that we had at those moment.
  • Traveling is not the same as tourWe can still go with a tour. In this way we have less freedom, but it is better that you choose the adventure by yourself.
  • Beauty is not in the expensive sceneryThe beauty exists in your everyday life, not only on your vacation in Hawaii. The important thing is your eye. You should have a special eye to sense the beauty around your life. This attitude and awareness is the beauty of your life. (An example

 

You can appreciate it and enjoy it, but you dont have to own it; like the blue and wide sky, like the fresh and green taste of the spring grass, like the clean and smooth highway. You dont own them, but you own the appreciation, your own the bless of Lord.


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