How to take great pictures with a Digital Camera

With the advent of digital cameras, it is very easy to take great pictures. It is as simple as taking a picture and viewing it instantly to see if it came out well, if not, you can delete and take another one. Most Digital cameras come with a great deal of pre loaded options to make sure that you take the best pictures with very little effort.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Digital Camera
• Batteries
• Memory Card

1. Prepare your camera! check your camera to make sure you have fully charge or good battery and enough room on the memory card. check the settings of your camera, for someone who is not very knowledgeable about digital cameras I would suggest you look for the following main settings; Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Scene, Macro, Night Snapshot, Sports or action, video
2. With Auto, The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject. use this if you do not know the setting that will give you the best picture in any environment.
   
   Use Night Snapshot to get natural looking pictures with brighter backgrounds and subjects lit by flash. you can use this setting for indoors and outdoors.
3. Sports or fast action setting to reduced time lag freezes fast-moving subjects so you won't miss those special shots. use this setting for sports, kids, kids playing and pets.
4. Digital Macro
   Shoot larger-than-life close ups of small objects to bring out every detail. Very good for close up on babies, flowers, kids and some portraits.
5. If you know your way around the pre loaded settings, you can try the manual setting, the manual setting is the ultimate in creative control, you set aperture and shutter speed to get the desired out come. just try shooting in different settings, modes and speed to get great pictures.

Tips & Warnings

• As the saying goes! Practise makes perfect, so please do not wait until the wedding day, birthday or that special occasion to use your camera, use it as many times as possibly until you are comfortable with it. take as many pictures as you like. remember regular pictures today are great memories tomorrow