How to Be a Better Photographer

Photography is a language. A language that everybody feels. Few people know how to communicate with that language. They are the photographers. It is not knowledge but talent that is needed to learn this language.

Down goes a set of secret techniques about how to take your photos to the next level.

• What Matters Most?
  
  
  
  It's untrue that you got to learn photography and all the theory to be a great photographer. Taking photographs of random events, makes you smile. It freshens your soul. After understanding the f-stop, I'm sure that you'll try to use that whenever you are taking a snapshot ever again. But there, you are bounding yourself into limits. Knowing stuff will sometimes narrow your abilities. Forget the theories for a while, and Enjoy Photography!
  
  
• Talking with the Camera
  
  
  
  Every camera is different. And every camera has got its unique features. To get the maximum use of your camera, once you bought one, read it top to bottom. That way, you'll get to know about all the funky things it's capable of.  
  
  
• Get Closer
  
  
  

  "If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough"
  ~Robert Capa (The famous photojournalist)

  It's all up to your choice. If you feel like your images aren't tingling that much, take a foot closer to the subject and focus. The closer you are to the subject, the better the images get. Fill the photo and avoid wasting space.
  
  
• Click! Wherever possible
  
  
  
  The best ever way to sharpen your skills is to Practice a lot. Maybe your selfies, some random object, a beautiful infant or any other thing. Just walk around and you'll find so many interesting things to have clicks. Always experiment. Build up your own style. For that, you need quite a lot of practice.
  
  
• Know the Light
  
  
  
  Light plays the biggest role in photography. Before raising up your camera, look for the light resource. It may be the sunlight, city light or a lamp even. Whatever it is, take the highest vantage point of it. In prior to snap the photo determine how the light should play its role. How it should interact with the photo.
   
• Bend towards your Subject 
  
  
  
  When taking photos beneath your eye level, get your knees dirty. Take the eye-to-eye advantage at its best.
  
  
• Gaining new techniques
  
  
  
  Having the most expensive camera in the world does not tell that you're the best photographer, by any means. It's true that amazing photographers are born by using their very own smartphone. So, to increase the ability, you need to invest in books. Buy some fascinating photography books and learn new stuff through them
  
  The books I recommend:
  • Pro Secrets to Dramatic Digital Photos - by Jim Zuckerman
  • Fundamentals of Photo Composition - by Paul R. Comon
  • The Digital Photography Book - by Scott Kelby
  
  
• Avoid Checking Photos while on Shoot
  
  
  
  Time is the most vital resource that a photographer has. Don't waste time looking at the back of the screen after getting a picture. That's a BAD habit. What's the hurry? You can see them later. Chances are that you will miss a great snapping opportunity while watching the clicked photos.
   
•  Join a Photographic Community
  
  
  
  In a community, there's power and magic. If you join a community, you'll be able to publish your photos for the rest of the world to see. And not only that, you'll get feedback from the professionals around you. You'll get a chance to improve your skills furthermore.  
  
  
• Break the Rules
  
  
  

  "If you Obey all the rules, You Miss all the fun"

  Some rules are to be broken! So go ahead, and break some! Experiment and Adventure. Always get experience in everything. Make mistakes and learn from them.
  
  Go forth and Shoot!
  
  

How to make a Quilled Heart

From those numeral ways to express your feelings on someone's special day, ditch the old traditional way, which is buying a card from the nearby gift shop and filling To and From blanks. Rather than that, make your own 3D card and let that certain someone fell, that you care.

Let me show, how you can make 3D curled paper heart(s) which is a great idea to your hand made card. It may look like too hard at first sight, but in reality they are quite easy.

• Decide the sizes of heart(s)
  
  
  Before cutting the paper, you must decide the height of your hearts in advance.
  Thicker and longer strips creates larger hearts
  Thinner and shorter strips creates delicate, smaller hearts.
• Cut the paper strips
  
  
  
  You don't need any instructions for this step. But take following points into notice.
  1. Each heart is created from a paper strip. Make sure they're with a smooth continuous width. With no remains of mistake cuts.
  2. Identical Hearts have same width and length.
   
•  Start creating hearts
  
  Before getting started, make sure you have clean fingers!

  • Fold a paper strip in half. Meet the ends evenly. And have a nice folding line.
    
    

  • Place your pencil or pen tube along the tip of one of the paper strips. Hold the paper strip firmly pressing it into the pencil.
    
    

  • Coil the pencil and paper downward, towards the center crease of the strip. Keep some space between the crease and the coil and gently remove the pencil.
    
    

  • Repeat the winding step on the other end of the paper strip. Curl inward and stop halfway down. (You can also glue the two curls together, if it seems right.)

    
  
  
  
• Finished!
    
  

How to save money as a kid

Have you ever thought of collecting and saving money for yourself? Answer will be YES! but, a this big question would occur...

HOW?

And, That's why you're here. ;)

•   Pocket money is your greatest income
  
  

  

  From where does pocket money come? Exactly, from parents. But you’ll consider how.

1. Money your Mom hands you for your lunch or maybe to buy short eats
2. Money for bus fare

             Yes, but how can I use that money, I’ve already used them. But not again!

Without going to eat fatty-food or candy, which will make you unhealthy, you can keep that money.

             If it’s a short distance, you can go by foot too. It worth more than your bus fare and a super easy way to exercise yourself. Those kept money will make you rich someday.  

• Manage a piggy bank for yourself

 
             As a youngster you must have a till or a coin collector by now. It’s your own bank. And someday, will be your jackpot. You have many ways to add coins to your little bank.

1.     Change from bus fare
2.     Change from the tuck shop
3.     Ask your parents for petty cash

              Your present jackpot is your parents. Ask them for petty cash daily. They’ll be happy knowing that you have learnt to save money.

•  Start a savings account in a local bank 

 

           

           This step needs parents’ assistance. Ask for their help to find a good bank with a favorable interest for children. And start a savings bank then and there.

          That is not enough. You have to maintain your account balance. Once a week or twice a month you can add cash for your back account. 
          And be aware that some banks offer rewards for rich account owners ;) 
 

•  Don’t waste money unnecessarily
  
  
  

  

  
            This one is so very important. You should understand your needs and wants separately like an elder. Try to decrease your wants. Because wants take out your money without your knowledge.                                                                          
  

1. For clothing
2. For accessories
3. Other fancy things
4. Junk food and drinks

                   Advice yourself not to go for unwanted things but for needy things.

•  Have goals and achieve them
           
  
  

   
            Take a book and write your piggy bank and savings bank account’s balance and budget your next month balance. Simply, have a goal for next month. 
            You can also prefer weekly goals. And show your growth to your parents and they’ll surely reward you.
   
•  If can, sell your old stuff and get a profit  
  
               
  

                
                You can do this with the assistance of your parents. Think of the piles of newspapers you have in your house. You can take the wanted articles and sell remaining newspapers to newspaper shops. And put that money to your bank.
                And, then again the bags containing plastic bottles, ice cream containers and stuff you can return them to respective companies and they’ll give you money. You can think of other ways that will be helpful to grow up your money tree.  
• Help other while you can.
  
  

  

  
            This is the most important thing. There’s a saying;

  “ The more you give

     The more you get  ”

            You can find many needy people around you town. Collect your old but usable clothes, school bags, your childhood books, and other stuff and offer then without any hard feelings. 
            This good habit will do good for you in the end. No doubt of that.

         

•         Don’t waste time

         

                  Remember the golden equation

Time = Money

                  Wasting time means wasting thousands of opportunities to make money, save money. In the other hand, mastering time means, creating thousands of ways to make money, save money.

                  The best investment you to for yourself is,

“Educating yourself”

            Make “studies” your no.1 and other things will be just in order without any effort.

            And that’s what exactly millionaires do. ;) 


WARNINGS!

1.      Money is not bad, if used nicely and wisely
2.      Money is not everything. Don’t lose yourself chasing them.
3.      Expertise your good qualities. No matter what, be YOU!
4.      Don’t give up. Save money. Save your future.