Fujifilm experts offer some quick tips on how to get great shots when you’re out clocking up the miles.
What is the secret of getting natural shots of friends and family out on walks and capturing the genuine atmosphere?
The best tip to capture 'natural' images is to try and take pictures when people aren't expecting them. Posed shots are fine to commemorate events, birthdays, weddings etc, but they don't always capture the atmosphere. Try using continuous shooting to fire off a burst of images, even subtle facial movements can make huge differences in the mood of an image.
FUJIFILM X-T200
Is there a specific camera that is compact and good for beginners to take on walks?
The X-T200 - It's great for beginner photographers and videographers.
John Dallas, Fujifilm
“The tips below will help you in your photography endeavours and hopefully get you enjoying photography on your daily walks. Photography is all subject to the photographers likes and tastes. If you like it, you take the picture and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise! Stay safe!”
Look all around you -
Look down to the ground and up to the sky there’s more to walking photography than just “the postcard” shots. They are great, however, there is so much more out there! From macro/close-up pictures of colours and textures to birds in the trees. Keep your eyes open!
Be abstract -
Get the creative juices flowing. Keep the viewer guessing.Cut/crop obvious features out, flip the subject upside down or simply convert it to B&W.
Be creative with Composition – Tell a story!
Composition is the arrangement of elements/points of interest within your image. Be that a beautiful reflection, or mirror image, of a hill or tree in a lake, the straight edges within a symmetrical pier or bridge, the leading lines of a road/path up to your subject or the famous “Rule of Thirds” where your points of interest are 1/3 in and 1/3 down the picture. All these rules are for creating powerful images. But remember.. Rules can be broken!
