10 Expert Tips to Immediately Improve Your Photography
Step your photography game up with these useful tips everyone with a camera should know.

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If you're a beginner photographer looking to step up your game, these tips are for you. What most amateurs don't know is that photography revolves around light, and most cameras have manual functions that allow you to manipulate how much light goes into your camera. By playing with these functions, you can make your photos look like they came straight out of National Geographic.
In Read This If You Want to Take Great Photos, Henry Carroll breaks down the basics of photography, including aperture, ISO speed, shutter speed, and more. We pulled the best bits of advice from Carroll's book to put together a list of 10 Expert Tips to Immediately Improve Your Photography. You can spend a lifetime perfecting different techniques, but there are basics every photographer needs to start with. If you're interested in further tips, you can purchase Carroll's book from Lawrence King here.
“Very often, nothing kills an image more than keeping your distance.”

“When you take a photograph, your camera's shutter speed opens, letting in light.”

“Slow shutter speeds blur movement.”

“The aperture is a hole in your lens that you can make smaller or larger to control how much light enters your camera.”

“ISO controls how sensitive your camera is to light.”

“Meet exposure compensation. This function allows you to make your entire image brighter or darker.”

“To draw out detail in the shadows, use exposure compensation.”

“To silhouette your back-lit subject, use exposure compensation.”

“Don't look, see.”

“True or false: good photographers nail it the first time?”
