Improving Your Pictures With This One Tiny Adjustment

The quickest and easiest tip I can give to fellow moms who want to improve the pictures they take on their point-and-shoot cameras is this: GET ON YOUR CHILD'S LEVEL.

How many of us have countless pictures, like this one below, where you're looking down on the top of your child's head because you were standing at the time or sitting on the couch and you wanted to snap a quick photo of your kid doing something adorable?

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It's all well and good to snap pictures and try to capture that fleetingly adorable moment, but also make the effort to get yourself down to eye level with them ASAP!  This was the single "Aha!" moment that transformed my photography from typical (as picture above) to beautiful (as pictured below), and all it requires is a little effort on my part.

A MUCH better photograph and one that I have proudly hanging on my wall at home

Sure, it means I get a little dusty and it can be really rough on the knees at times, but it is the easiest photography secret to learn and carry into your own pictures.

It's tough to look back on my old photographs and admit that I knew virtually nothing about picture-taking back then.  Most of my decent pictures were happy accidents.  I knew a great picture when I captured it, but I couldn't have told you what I did right to replicate it in the next situation.  I had a love for cameras, and according to my mom, "A natural knack for the art," but I needed to learn so much more!

If you're like I used to be back then, I thought editing would be my magic cure-all for what I knew was missing from my photographs.  SURPRISE!  Editing can do nothing to correct a picture that wasn't taken correctly to begin with.  Getting down on your child's level, ensuring you pay attention to what's in the background (http://sweatyhorsedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/06/whats-up-with-other-peoples-photos.html), and keeping your photography style in the back of your mind at all times (http://sweatyhorsedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/06/whats-your-style-and-how-to-find-it.html) helps you point the camera in the right direction, at the right level, to produce a photo that you can impress yourself with!

*TIP*: Get down at the same level as your child for the best picture-taking moments.

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