Samsung has been sending some great tips over about photography. Since this is a passion of mine I thought you all might find them interesting as well.
- The bright sun reflecting off of the sand and water can fool your camera’s light metering system into thinking your subject is too bright, which will unfortunately result in an underexposed image. In order to ensure that your photos are properly exposed when shooting at the beach, take a look at your digital camera to see if it offers a beach scene mode.
- This specific scene mode will automatically program your digital camera to take the best photo possible in the bright and reflective environment. When set to the beach scene mode, your camera will know that it’s taking a photo in a bright environment and will properly expose the scene, or more importantly, your subject.
- It may seem a bit silly, but taking beach photos is also an opportunity to make use of your camera’s flash. While you may not think about using a flash on a bright, sunny day, it’s actually one of the easiest things you can do to help make your photos pop, especially if you’re taking photos of your children! Very sunny conditions can often cause unwanted shadows to appear on your subjects’ faces. By simply turning on and using your camera’s flash, you can make sure that shadows won’t be an issue and that you’re able capture that perfect smile for everyone to see.
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Thanks for sharing these tips! We’ve had our digital camera for a couple of years already and I just discovered that my camera had a bunch of special settings that make my pictures look much better. Must go check if it has a beach setting.
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Thanks for the tips! I just bought a new camera and we are heading to the beach n Sunday! I will have to see if my camera has that beach option!
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I’ll have to check my camera and see if it has that setting.
I love it and thanks for the tips. I just bought a Canon DSLR and I have no idea what I’m doing!
Those are great tips and that is great detail in the picture. Mine never come out well, no matter what I do.
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Those are great points. Thank you for sharing. I love photography too!
I didn’t know that photography is a passion of yours, that is awesome Holly!
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Love the picture and the tips! I joined the blog, look forward to reading more!
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Pictures are gorgeous and the tips are great! All of the photos I have ever taken at the beach seem to come out awful and I hate that!
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OK! Not sure how I posted this to the wrong post sorry about that!
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Interesting! I’m always trying to shut off my flash because I can’t stand the way my pics turn out. I’ll have to try that trick
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! I’m always fiddling with my camera trying to take better pics! Will be back to read more here
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I need to be more up on my camera’s setting’s. I am a little impatient.
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I would have never thought to use a flash in bright conditions, but now that it has been explained to me it makes a lot of sense.
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