I take pictures...

I take pictures a lot...

I take a lot of pictures...

They aren't all perfect...I don't have a secret formula or equation that I plug into my brain or camera and it automatically spits out the exact picture I'm envisioning...

Along with knowing your equipiment and having some basic rules for composition, I think there are some other "helpful tips" that come into play when you are really working for quality imagery...

In this little installment of {Teach It Tuesday} I want to share with you 6 changes that you can make in order to strengthen a photo...

Here is the first photo:

1. SHOOTING ANGLE:  My goal was to capture the essence of this little girl...So I got her all comfy on the bridge and we were chatting and laughing and I'm sure I had something I was trying to balance on my head and it kept falling off to make her giggle... I was above her, but I wasn't honing in on what was most important...there wasn't depth to the image...so I started to inch forward...

2. APERTURE: for the first image, I had my aperture fairly wide, but at my distance and what I was putting in the background, it wasn't really making a difference. I either needed to correct my angle so that more background would blur OR I had to come even closer...I chose the latter...

3. FILL THE FRAME: I decided to get even closer to her so that the background became a complete blur...this helps with depth of field, it also allows me to zoom in on the personality points that I'm trying to capture.