Take Your Photos Super Sharp

By John Rocha

Take Your Photos Super Sharp is a guide to taking super sharp photos. It is illustrated with appropriate photographs and provides examples and tips on how to keep your camera steady by hand holding your camera correctly and steadying your camera using everyday supports such as lamp posts and walls as well as commercial items such as bean bags, monopods and tripods. There are sections on choosing and using lenses and an emphasis on accurate focussiing. This is a guide based on standard photographic techniques and not on post processing in computer programmes

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Rocha
• Release date: Mar 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310753749

John Rocha

I'm a British photographer and writer based in Sofia, Bulgaria.My photography is mostly editorial and for stock agencies.As a writer I concentrate mainly on short stories and poetry and also on writing non fiction based on photo technique, travel and antiques.I'm married and have a teenage son who loves fantasy fiction

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Take Your Photos Super Sharp

By John Rocha

Copyright 2014 John Rocha

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Contents

Introduction

Be a Sharp Shooter and Don't Shake Your Camera

Find a support or use the ground

Take a support with you

Lenses

To recap

About John Rocha

Some other titles by John Rocha

Connect with me

Introduction

This is a guide based on basic photographic techniques, it is not about producing sharp pictures using a computer programme.

Also, this guide reflects my personal practice so you must take my advice at your own risk. If you drop your camera or someone treads on it, don’t blame me.

Be a Sharp Shooter and Don't Shake Your Camera

Have you sometimes looked at those wonderful coffee table books or maybe at some photo websites and asked yourself, "How can the pictures be so sharp?

Is it some kind of digital trickery?

Why can't my pictures be so crystal clear?

This is what I saw the other day:

I was walking through the park near my home.

A young man was taking a photo of his wife and child. He had taken out his camera and he'd clearly done some thinking. First of all they were not out there in the bright sunshine where they would have black sockets for their eyes but they were in the open shade under a tree in front of the lake.

Good point.

And then, the man had squatted down on his haunches to take the photo. He didn't want to be looking