12 Tips For Better Holiday Photos

[Tywais]

12 tips for better holiday photos

Before you start immortalizing your holiday gatherings of friends and family, learn to use your camera. Celebrate the new year by taking it off auto. Party in a priority mode.

That's the most important piece of advice I can think of for any photographer. Whether it's a cell phone, a point-and-shoot, or a power dSLR, if you want to take better photos, you have to start by taking at least 30 minutes to understand your camera's controls. Otherwise, you're going to have nothing but bad shots at best and missed opportunities at worst. I find shooting with a strange camera is like driving a strange car in the rain: don't wait till the downpour before looking for the wiper controls.

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[astral]

Nah, never read the manual,

just dive straight in..........

Life is way to easy with the Auto settings on most cameras

and electronics in general

Good advice, all the same!! RTFM

[hughden]

I would like to celebrate my holiday by using the same camera as the article writer, a Panasonic GX1. Please Santa?