There are plenty of photography guides and tutorials out there – we’ve even done a few to help folks improve the canvas prints they were hanging on their walls. Most of these tutorials and guides are pretty technical. They talk about photography concepts like the Rule of Thirds and composition, they talk about lighting and the settings on your digital camera, or they talk about photo manipulation programs that make a lot of people’s head spin with the sheer complexity of the tools.
You might be someone for whom those sort of technical guides make sense. You’ve already got a lot of photos that are ideal for canvas printing and for you photography is a serious hobby – or even a profession. But for the rest of us, we thought it might make sense to offer a different sort of photography tutorial. There’s nothing technical in this post, no numbers, theories, or software menus. This is how to improve your photography and the canvas prints that result simply.
Simple Photography Tip for Better Canvas Prints: Eyes Open, Camera Out
The first rule of photography is that interesting stuff is all around you. If you want interest wall art from your photos, you have to take interesting pictures. The first and most important step is to always be looking, and always be ready – so your motto has to be “eyes open, camera out”. The acronym ECO almost works!
Think of it this way: Most people rush through their lives. They walk around looking at the phone’s screen, they read the paper on the bus, they stare at TVs and monitors and read books – they’re not looking at the world around them. Ideal photo opportunities are always out there, you just have to see them first. And when you see them, you have to be ready to snap that photo, right away. Simply being ready will improve your photos a million percent, with no technical know-how whatsoever.
Simple Photography Tip for Better Canvas Prints: Take Multiple Shots
Once you see something worth taking pictures of, whether it’s a still life, a landscape, a group of people, or an object – don’t just take a single photo and move on. Even when working on real film that cost real money, the best photographers took as many pictures of things as they could. Now you’re in the digital world and there’s absolutely no reason you can’t take dozens of photos of a single scene.
A little movement can’t hurt, either, if you can. Keep moving to change the angle and the background. Don’t think! Don’t worry about composition (if you were the type to worry about composition you wouldn’t be reading this post!) just take pictures. You’ll go through them later and pick the ones that have turned out great and delete the ones that are rubbish. The chances of having a single great photo goes up the more you take – it’s that simple.
Simple Photography Tip for Better Canvas Prints: Change Up Your Routes
When looking for something to photograph and perhaps use in canvas printing, one of the simplest and easiest techniques is to go someplace unfamiliar. We all tend to take the same routes in life – the same walk to work, the same bus ride, and the same places for lunch. After a while these places become blind spots in our minds, places and routes we’ve seen so often we don’t really notice them.
Change those routes. Just picking different streets to walk down or a different way to get to work in the morning can show us the world in a new way, and show us things we haven’t noticed before – things that are like as not perfect for our photography. When the visuals in our eyes are novel and new, our brain reacts differently – it’s as simple as that. If you’re not happy with the subjects of your photography, change up the routine of your life and remember the first tip – eyes open, camera out.
Following these simple guides you’re bound to wind up with a few truly spectacular photos no matter your technical prowess. When you’ve got those magical shots, click here and we’ll turn them into amazing canvas prints you’ll be proud to put on display.
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