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 Kodak’s Top Ten Tips

I looked at Kodak’s top ten tips for taking photographs. I thought they were very helpful, especially for first time photographers. CLICK HERE to look at Kodak’s website. I recommend it! Here is Kodak’s top ten tips:

1. Get down on their level
2. Use a plain background
3. Use flash outdoors
4. Move in close
5. Take some vertical pictures
6. Lock the focus
7. Move it from the middle
8. Know your flash’s range
9. Watch the light
10. Be a picture director

Did you like these tips? Do think all of them are necessary?

My Opinion 

I think that these tips are very helpful, especially for first time photographers. Not all of them, though, I think are necessary. Here are my opinions on each of Kodak’s top ten tips.

Get down on their level

This is an awesome tip! If you go down to their level, you can see things from their point of view. Also, I think you can see more detail like more colour, more line, and more shape. This is probably my favourite tip out of them all.

Use a plain background

This one I’m not so sure about. Most of them would look nice, but others might need something in the background. I think this one depends on what theme or subject you want your photo to be.

Use flash outdoors

I think this one is obvious. Of course you would use flash outdoors, especially when it’s dark out (duh!). Although, this might not be obvious for other people, like people who never even seen a camera before. I think this one doesn’t really need to be in the top ten.

Move in close

This is an awesome tip, but you have to do it exactly right. There are two ways to do it. The obvious one is that you just take the picture close up. HELPFUL HINT: If you want to do it this way, make sure you flash isn’t on when you take the picture. If you do, it will turn out to be a flash of light. The other way is that you edit it to make it close.

Take some vertical pictures

This is a neat tip. It is very helpful, especially when you take a picture horizontally and you can’t fit something in the frame. It also adds a neat effect to most photos.

Lock the focus

This tip I didn’t quite understand at first. Now that I get it, I can tell you what it does. Locking the focus makes the picture look more sharp. This especially works if the subject is off-centered. I think this tip is awesome. For one, I learned something new. Secondly, you might have learned something too.

Move it from the middle

 In case you’re wondering, “it” means the subject. Moving the subject from the middle adds a neat effect. In my opinion, though, if you make it way off-centered, you can ruin a photograph.

Know your flash’s range

This tip helps with understanding flash. If you don’t know your flash’s range, you can ruin a photograph. This tip is probably the most helpful out of the ten.

Watch the light

I think this is an obvious tip as well. If you take a picture and there is light in the frame, it’s not going to turn out so well. The trick is to but your back against the sun and take the picture.

Be a picture director

This is probably the most obvious one. When you are taking picture, you are already being a picture director. You decide what to take pictures are and you know what to edit and delete.

My tip: Think of Thirds

I was surprised that thinking of thirds wasn’t in the top ten tips. Incase you don’t know what thinking of thirds is, it is taking a picture of something that looks like it is in thirds. They don’t even need to be equal thirds. 

Here is an example of thinking of thirds:

 

This is an exellent example of thinking in thirds. One third is the water, the second third is the boat, and the final third is the sky. This may not be an artistic way of showing thirds, but it is easier to understand.

 Who won? Kodak’s Top 10 or My Opinion? 

 

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