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How to take sharp photos?

How can I take good photos?

  • All my photos are rubbish bar a few. I think it may be my camera. It is really blurry sometimes, and other peoples cameras seem to take more colour - rich and detailed photos, without blurring. My flash is also too bright, I have to be very far away. It is an 8 megapixel. There is no optical zoom, only digital zoom. Settings on my camera don't seem to help. Macro dosen't seem to be very good, and it won't let you use flash on macro. I always make sure I get good light etc. etc. When friends use my camera they can't take good photos but on theirs they can. I was thinking of getting this camera for my birthday in September. Is it any good? http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5593543/Trail/searchtext%3EDIGITAL+SLR.htm Please help, I really love photography and want to have some satisfying photos.

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    Argh! The other answers frustrate me so much!! Your photography does not automatically improve if you get a 'better' camera. The camera is only as good as the person using it. You could have a £3,000 DSLR and get as much out of it as a person with a £200 DLSR could... I'd recommend, yes, buying a new camera. Try out a DSLR (they normally cost £200+). Check out Amazon, go to your nearest camera store, use Google to read reviews of the camera, you'll find something you want. :) But don't stop there. Read up about some photography techniques - you don't necessarily need to pay for lessons, just use Google. Read up on things about the likes of composition (rule of thirds), lighting, shutter speed, aperture, etc. I, myself, am self-taught. You don't need lessons. You just need the time to be able to experiment doing different things. Also, I'd recommend looking on different photo-sharing websites. Flickr would be the best I guess as you already have a Yahoo! account so you can just log in to Flickr with that. Looking at other people's photography is important because you can see what they're doing and try it out yourself. Many people on Flickr are also happy enough to give you tips or share how they did something with you, I found this very helpful when learning new techniques. Don't view 'bad' pictures as rubbish. View them as a learning curve. You know what went wrong, so you can fix it. Hope this helps!! :)

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The problems you are describing point towards a rubbish camera. I am sorry I have to say this but it's most probably the truth. Nowadays, cameras are able to take pics in almost dark conditions without blurring due to expanded ISO ranges, fast shutter speed, wide apertures and anti-shake/vibration-reduction/anti-blur… systems. They also have the flash metering through the lens (TTL) which ensures for a good exposure most of the times. About vibrance, contrast and saturation see if you can do something from the camera menu (crank up contrast and set it for vibrant pics). Digital zoom is useless. PhotoShop enlargements are almost always better than any in-camera digital zoom facilities. In short, from what you are saying, it does not seem like a resolvable situation. I really hope you did not invest more than £30/$50 on that camera. The new camera you are thinking of buying is good. I would go for an SLR though. You can find one for around $300/£200.

Soteris H

No matter how hard I try, I can't get good pictures while holding the camera. No matter how much I hold my breath, I still move the camera when I take the picture. I had to get a tripod.

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I highly doubt your camera only has digital zoom (but since you don't mention what kind you have I can't say for sure). You take good photos by learning proper picture-taking techniques. Blur comes from either not keeping still when you hold the camera or by not having enough light (so your camera slows down the shutter speed). Both of these issues are the fault of the photographer, not the camera. As far as color, that might be an issue with the pictures being overexposed and/or getting stray light into your lens (lens flare). Though it's possible that you camera might be overexposing, it is more likely that your camera is not being used properly. Settings on a camera cannot make up for bad picture-taking (it is up to the photographer to take good pictures - the camera can't do it by itself). As far as friend taking bad pics on yours but bad ones on theirs, it could be your camera or it could just be that they don't know how to use your camera so they take bad pictures (not the camera). Because they know how to use their own, then pics from their own cameras come out better. However, you usually get what you pay for. If you only paid 50 pounds for a camera, that's not a lot. But I'm willing to bet it's not all the camera's fault. Don't know if that's a good camera or not. I might be. However the best camera in the world will not give you good pictures if you don't know anything about photography.

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