Tips for Taking Better Photos

Out of the 10 tips for improving your photo-taking abilities, I would say I could use improvement in #1:  Looking the subject in the eye and #10:  Be a picture director.  As far as the others, I think I have a pretty good command of photo composition, lighting and angles, although I do need to work on my creativity.  When it comes to looking the subject in the eye, I haven't taken that many pictures of children, so I have not really come across a situation where I got a bad picture because of eye level.  However, I know that if I had, I probably wouldn't have taken that into account when setting up the picture.  For #10, being a picture director, I need to work on my ability to visualize exactly what I want a picture to look like before I take it. I am pretty good at picking locations, but posing, when it is needed, is another story.  Luckily, the primary difference between regular photographs and photos for newspaper is that most of the ones we take for newspaper are not posed.

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