Photography 101

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Here are a couple of tips to make your shots more effective.


1. Make sure there are no lights behind or beside the subject of your photo. Camera shutters close when enough light gets in to form an image. If there is a light in the shot, you will get a good pic of that and everything else will be dark. Use a flash or get the camera between your target and the light source.


2. Putting a background up will highlight your shot. Some of my favorite pics were taken from inside my closet, pointing back out at the target with the black basement as a background. The black just made the green stand right out.

3. Pay attention to your camera settings. Macro settings are for close ups (usually indicated by a flower); Portrait settings are for 3-5 feet away (a head and shoulders); and landscape settings (a mountain, sometimes green) are for anything further than 5 feet. Most cameras also allow you to change what kind of light source you're working with (daylight, sunset, tungston bulb, fluoro bulb, etc.). Hint: it's not always the best option to leave this on automatic.

4. Clean your lens every time.

5. Look at it from a few different angles to get an idea how to "pose your model". Straight on can get boring... spice it up by snapping from above, below, the side, whatever. Get creative... it's not like you're wasting film these days.

Above all, have fun. You're combining two fantastic passtimes: Photography and sweet leaf cultivation.


E4A2S

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I'm gonna bring this up once in a while... I've seen some bad, ugly shots of beatiful bud, so I hope people consider how they are presenting their hard work to the rest of us. If you have something to add... please be my guest. If you disagree with anything here, please try to correct me.

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Great tips, nothing worse than mucking up a great image with bad photography.