Taking pictures of your new baby is a great way to preserve life long memories. Baby pictures can also make great postcards, keepsakes, or baby shower gifts. Here are some simple tips to get great baby pictures:

1) Avoid bright light - Babies are especially sensitive to bright light including harsh sunlight and flash photography. If possible, try to take photos during the day when flash photography is not necessary. You can also use lamps to create lighting.

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What is a good photograph? While a hard definition to write, it can be any image capture you enjoy to look at.

Theoretically a good image should have four elements: composition, exposure, technique, and presentation. An image should capture the interest of the observer or judge. It may be unique or common: but to be a winner, it should stand out from all the other images.

Competitive photographers should compose images that include some of following features:

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You won’t have to look hr to find close-up ideas – even everyday household objets can make fantastic subjects Once You’ve trained your eye to look for macro photo opportunities, you’ll find them almost anywhere, even in objects such as stamps, coins, paper clips, drawing pins and so on. The fact that you’re capturing them from an unusual viewpoint makes shot of ‘found’ objects interesting in themselves.

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Dept of field is a powerful tool when taking macro images, and it’s a technique you’ll need to understand in order to work true macro magic. You’ll generally be using very shallow depth of field settings when getting up close to the subjects, and the closer you get, the shallower depth of field becomes.

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I want to print photos large. How do I find the Pixels Per Inch figure so I don’t make it too low?

1. If you want a high-quality image, don’t print at less than 200PPI.
Open your Photoshop, load a photo, go image>image size. Pixel dimension shows how big the image on the screen but this isn’t the PPI

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John from Adelaide, Australia has been doing some impressive macro shots with his Minolta DiMAGE A1.
The best part is he also has the ‘behind the scene’ of some of his best shots.

Macro basically refers to being able to focus on subjects quite close to the lens, so you can photograph small subjects in reasonable detail.

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Each device you use: scanner, monitor and printer handle color in its own slighty different way. It’s a by product of the manufacturing process, design, electronic circuity, processing and other factors. The result is that the same color (eg. blue) might be assigned slightly different blue to the one captured by your scanner, and your printer may also produce an alternative shade.

So How can I make colors match ?

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This table shows different image sizes in pixels and megapixles, and the size of printouts at 200dpi (adequate quality) and 300dpi (high quality). You can use it to help you decide what digital camera to buy, how big to print your photos and the best scanner settings to use. If you want really big enlargements, you’re likely to be better off using a good 35mm film camera and a special film scanner, or transparancy adaptor if your scanner has one

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Everyone take colors for granted so much that it can be a challenging subject to understand. However with a focused mindset, colors can be magnifivently easy to achieve.

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