Tip 1: Are Your Photos Sharp?

"If your photos aren't sharp, the rest doesn't matter." - Scott Kelby

The phrase up there says it all. Getting sharp photos are so important that pro photographers made a term for it, called "tack sharp". Its actually an acronym, TACK stands for Technically Accurate Cibachrome Kelvin (which refers to the colour temperature of light in photographs), SHARP stands for Shutter Hyperfocal At Refracted Polarisation. Its sound cool doesn't it? Well Scott Kelby made that up. Haha. Mainly I'm giving tips for digital SLR users, but I'll try to give tips for the point-and-shoot camera users. To make things easy, I'll put tips for point-and-shoot cameras in purple colour.

The first step to get "tack sharp" photos starts with a tripod. And not just any kind of tripod. You need a good quality tripod, cause cheap tripods simply don't do a great job of keeping your camera that steady. That's why their cheap. One thing that separates the pros and the amateurs is that pros always shoot on a tripod (even in daylight). It's more work but, it's the key ingredient that amateurs miss. Pros will do the little things that most amateurs are not willing to do.

Since it is a point-and-shoot camera, you can't expect to put your tiny little camera on a gigantic tripod that we usually use for DSLRs. Well if you're shooting a group shot, of course the first thing that comes into your mind would be a tripod. You can't really get "tack sharp" photos using a point-and-shoot camera when you're using ISO as high as 800. Then your photos will look sharp, but grainy. So I guess for point-and-shoot cameras has an exception of holding it to shoot. You can also try to put it on a leveled base to hold it steady then you can either shoot or use a timer.

I guess that's all for now.