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.....next....This picture was taken in a closed verandah, where the sky has thrown sufficient light for a handhold shot with a kit lens in Dslr. Such photos can be shot with prosumers or compacts. Use of light in verandah gave a background of whitewashed effect, because it was needed a bigger aperture inside in comparison to what was needed outside.

2. Thus, great effect pictures can be taken using an open window, or window covered with a net cloth giving more softer light in case of children and ladies portraits...Next is an easily approachable portion of a house is a side wall casting more than 10ft shadow outside...the effect will be as good as in a verandah, keeping aperture half stop down in case of dslrs and half stop minus exposure compensation in prosumers and compacts, keeping the subject 4 to 5 ft away from the wall to make the things on it out of focus. Porch is also a good place for shadowless photography. There is one more source and that is the built in flash of your camera. The advantage in indoor photography is that there is less faster movements. Yes children are active and here they will give good poses with camera's flash. However, it should be kept in mind while photographing small children below 4-5 months, to avoid use of flash since it throws white and bright sparkle of light which may affect their eyes. LAST but not the least...in your home you can enjoy candle light dinner keeping camera on a tripod and self also keeping still using self-timer method.

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..NEXT.....Soft lighting from overcast days is good for shooting nature, portraits and varied subjects. However, the photo alongside was taken in the morning 7 a.m. and a good fill-in was provided by nature itself....Shooting pictures when there is a thin clouds covering the sun gives good opportunity for portraits. There are times when you have to face strong sunlight as during sports, it is natural to shoot as the time permits...may be morning, noon or evening. Here you can make good closeups of any player with the use of zoom lens of 70-200 or 70-300mm focal lengths...THESE ARE ACTION SHOTS, SO SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS both are included keeping attention on focusing...These lenses with a 18-55 kit lens will help you in street photography finding good closeups of people in different moods....Thus outdoors, we encounter sunlight, morning to evening, overcast sky at any time of the day.

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OUTDOOR LIGHTING:

Direct lighting is not always best illumination for close-up outdoors. Light direction is also important and for snapshot purpose, ideally the sun should be behind you and not behind the subject. (this idea is good for learners and ladies rarely handling camera). If the sun is strong, switch on your camera FLASH, AS CAN BE SEEN FROM MY PHOTOGRAPH, AND THIS CAN BE UNDERSTOOD FROM THE CATCHLIGHT FROM THE EYES. The result will be an improved one, though sun's position may be changing. Adjust accordingly.

2. Rainy days are great for photography, especially if u want to capture a feeling of freshness and life in your flower pictures. Raindrops will help adding sparkle to your picture......next

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Digital technology made closeup photography more easy. Even the compacts can take close up photographs as close as one inch....The same thing is with prosumer cameras which to as close as one cm. Dslrs have their own working applying different lenses amongst which is 105mm macro lens. However your kit lens of 18-55 will give u as close as 5 inches....next.

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Nobody is unaware of closeup photography. Every now and then the word is repeated with photographers & in homes, where snaps are a necessity...Closeup is not new to modern day photography. 19th century and 20th century saw the grow of full sized and close up photographs of the then Rulers WHICH INCLUDED RAJAS, NAWABS AND THEIR BEGUMS, including children in black & white and some of them hand coloured with enthusiastic artists.

IF we come across the subjects, there are varied subjects around. NATURE has given so much...your 32GB memory card will be filled up but still the whole globe will remain to trotter.....NEXT

UNCONVENTIONAL CROPS OF AN IMAGE

AS WE HAVE SEEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY WE HAVE A SMALL GADGET CALLED A DIGITAL CAMERA. A VERSATILE TOOL TO ENCAPTURE THE WHOLE GLOBE. the wonders have hidden in it.....they need exploitation, one by one carefully remembering each's independent capability.....Besides many feature, it has a wonderful feature of portrait.....There is a separate feature(sign) of portrait on the camera's dial. This in itself will allow the use of bigger aperture to give your face a distinctness of portraiture by giving less depth of field....It means camera used bigger aperture and lower shutter speed. If it is taken in sun light, it can be taken handheld, otherwise in shadow slower shutter speed is used as mentioned above, it will be better to use tripod. Since blurred/shaky shots are of no use.

2. Usually a close-up portrait implies a photograph in which the face of a person is wholly present in the frame...However you can frame your pictures in unconventional ways to add a sense of mystery to the person's appearance. Cropping the face while framing the picture is an experiment that can yield dynamic/unusual results... You can do this either while framing the image or by cropping it in a photo editing software. The easiest way one can use this technique is to crop the face closely so that the frame ends at the forehead and above the chin. Another thing you can try is to crop the face through the nose so that half the face can be seen....this uses the natural symmetry in one's face to add mystery in the portrait.....I have used 3/4th of the cropped face as explained above... there is no limit in experimenting.

3. Using un- common tight closeups is a common cinematic technique. that enhances portraits and help you steer away from the cliche.

PHOTOGRAPHY-P,S,A,M MODES IN A D-CAMERA

ON EACH CAMERA TOP, particularly in prosumers and dslrs there is a dial, which operates P,S,A,M modes while shooting a picture by selecting an individual mode. Let us see below what are their functions:

P-(Programmed auto): in this mode the camera automatically adjusts shutter speed and aperture for optimal exposure in most conditions. This mode is recommended for snapshots and other situations in which u want to leave the camera in charge of shutter speed and aperture.
S-(shutter-speed priority): Here you choose the shutter speed from varied speeds provided in the camera--may range from 30s-1/8000 of a second. While the camera automatically selects the aperture producing optimal exposure. Use slow shutter speed to suggest motion by blurring moving subjects---high shutter speed to freeze the motion.

A-(Aperture priority auto): In this mode, you choose the aperture as provided in the camera e.g. f2.8 to f22 (this may differ in other cameras models-prosumer or dslr), while the camera automatically selects the shutter speed which will produce the optimal exposure. Small Apertures (bigger f numbers) increase depth of field bringing both the main subject and background in focus. Larger apertures (small f numbers) soften background details and produce less depth of field.

M-(Manual mode): By using Manual mode you control both shutter speed and aperture. Here u can choose any speed between e.g. 30s and 1/8000 of a second and select the aperture from maximum opening to the minimum aperture, thus having full control over the exposure and there are less chances of fluctuations in exposure values as set by you according to prevailing lighting conditions. There is 'bulb' setting which u can use for longer exposures say in night and close when done with, may be several seconds to hours.