Five Pro Photography Tips for Better Photos

One of the big difference between a professional photographer and a really good enthusiastic amateur photographer is the fact that the pro has to come back with the assignment no matter what there're simply no excuses allowed. So let's talk about the five things that you can do to ensure that you come back with technically correct images from your shoot. The first thing. And actually the easiest thing is to simply format the card. The reason we do that is when you stick that card in your reader, you wanna make sure there's no errors. And by sort of clearing the deck on the data in that card you're ensuring you won't get any corruption all the images, bad images, whatever. And you're also gonna make sure that the card is actually working in the camera because you're able to format it. So that simple. You just first off make sure there's nothing on that card that you wanna save. You go to the menu setting. So we're using this HTMI monitor here. I'm almost there right now. I'm just gonna go down, hit that button. And of course, depending on the camera your situation will change. So right away, you see there was some old data on here. I'm just gonna get rid of that. And I'm always like super paranoid. I actually do it twice. That's crazy I know, but it's just me. Okay, cool. So we did the most important thing. Now we formatted the card. We're ready to go. We have a clean slate. Let's take some pictures. Good. Big smile. Chin up a bit. Good. Okay. So now we have a few frames on the card. Let's do that first check that you wanna do. The first check of course is your exposure. The easiest way to do that is just to look on your histogram. The histogram is the little thing that basically looks like a graph and it tells you if your exposures are correct by keeping all the data within that little square that you have on the camera back here, you know, you're in good shape. This is a great histogram. It's just perfect. So that was our first check. We're in good shape. Let's go onto another option here. So we'll shoot a few more. Chin up just a little bit. Good. Chin this way. Good. Excellent. Now we have a few more things in the cam. Let's do the next step. So the pictures here we're gonna check focus Your camera again will vary but basically that does it. You can see we have a great focus check in there. Nice and sharp. This camera also has two options for a 10X which is kind of revealing. Luckily you've got really good skin. So let's go back to that. We'll take a few more shots. Great. Good. Tip your head just a little bit. Now, the next thing you wanna do, and you know, you can do this as well. We're gonna hit the information we'll just look this real quick. We are shooting with a raw file and I know this seems crazy. We're like, "why didn't you check that at first?" Well I did, but I am paranoid. That's the other thing that photographers do. They wanna make sure that their setting stay put for some reason something wonky can happen and it has happened where things change. You just always wanna be referring to your the back all the time. So although I'm gonna tell you five things we're gonna do with sequentially. I am constantly checking these things during the shoot to make sure they stayed. So we're on raw, which of course is the way to go if you're professional. So let's do it a few more frames. Great. Turn ahead. Look right into the profile. Excellent. Chin up just a little bit. So now that's great. One more thing that professionals do quite often is we kind of shoot for parts. And by that, I mean, we might say, well, hey, this turned out good. but this isn't quite right and we doing a head shift, something along those lines maybe we got some great shots of us. Let's say in this shot we're seeing a nice picture of the watch here. Let's say there was this a watch ad and it maybe wasn't quite right or was it a little glary or something like that. So we shoot extra. We always shoot extra, depending on the situation. You might even wanna shoot one with the background and not the person in it. So basically the idea here is just to shoot make sure you have enough images in hand that if you have to do some work in Photoshop or some compositing or some montage work, you can in fact do that directly because you've shot enough information. We've done what we were supposed to do. We've done the multiple checks on the five things. I think we're in good shape here. And as for you have a great shoot.