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Different effect techniques for taking photo

I always said that taking a photo, it doesn't mean to take great pictures. Sometimes, a defect is better than a normal and/or beautiful photo depending what you want to take and the place you are.

How many times when you shoot a photo, you only get a blurred picture ? About me, a lot that I stopped to count it but one of them can be a really great blurred effect so a great picture.

If your goal is to take a landscape and the main target get blurred, that is a bad result but if your goal is to take a landscape and all get blurred like a mist, that can be a real art !!!

The blurredness effect is considered like a great photo. Of course only when the effect is very good, to do that you just have to configure your camera to create it. If not, the simple way to do it is to shoot before that your camera adjusts itself in order to provide you the perfect picture, but may be you will have to take a lot of shots before to get the blurred effect you will like.

The other effect that you can create easily is with the light. For example, to create a picture with light moving. I am sure that you have already seen those great pictures where the light of the cars are like river.

You can create this light effect in any environment where there are lights of course. What I do when I want to create this effect, it is to go, during night, to some streets with different light colors and instead to stand steady, I move my camera. By doing this move, you will make that the light of the streetlight creates a track.

For example, one night I was passing and I saw the best opportunity to take this light effect.

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The last effect I will talk it is the composite effect. Following the options you have, your camera will allow you to do it or not. Luckily, my camera allows me to create this effect.

It allows me to take from 2 to 4 shots in the same picture. I find it very useful when I have to take photos in landscape mode or when I want to show the whole place since I can't take all the surroundings.

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On this way I can take many pictures in one photo thus I can show the whole place in one shot only.

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You can also use some filters to create a particular effects, it may happen that sometimes I use one of them.

Of course, you can always tell me that all those effects can be created by using some software like photoshop. The point is that if I'm taking pictures, it's to take the reality that I see and not the reality I want to see and if you want to see more about my work, you can go to my other website Concept RT.