Thinking of heading over to a beach and wishing to capture your moments? Carrying a good camera has its risks and buying a waterproof camera just for a day seems impractical right? Well, you can simply use your phone and click amazing pictures using simple tips.

Waterproofing options:

You can find many plastic pouches or covers for your camera on the net. Most will let you use your phone normally at the same time not letting water inside. Buy the best from your nearest store or the internet.

Photography Tips:

Focus on the subject: Capturing a good picture underwater means you have to get close to the subject to get the best shots. So keep the subject in focus and don’t try wide angle shots to get the background. Capture the wildlife as much as possible.

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If you are looking at commercial photography as a profession or wish to convert your passion into profession, there are a several misconceptions you need to safeguard yourself against. We debunk few myths doing the round so that your transition to professional photography is smooth.

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According to Wikipedia, Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Portrait photography is often mistaken to mean photography where a model poses in the studio and his passport size photography is taken. Thought the emphasis in portrait photography is mostly on the face, full body photos can also be taken and still qualify to be categorized as portrait photography. We tell you how you can take striking portraits by breaking the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. Here are 15 tips that will help you capture some amazing portraits.

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While accidental blurs are a common mistake and the reason for most of us scrapping half our photographs into bins, intentional or creative blur can create wonders for an image. We tell you of the blurs that are associated in photography to the achieving the effect in Photoshop and how you can creatively use them.

Overview

Accidental blurs are often unwanted and, more than anything, spoil the shots. Surprisingly, intentional blurs make viewers think the photo was taken by a professional or a high end camera was involved. These blurs make the image look appealing and void of distractions. There are many ways of achieving perfect blurs in photography but they can be divided into two main categories—camera or lens generated and software aided. The first priority should be given to the camera or the lens and if for some reason you missed achieving a perfect blur, then you can invoke Photoshop or other photography software to do the job for you. It’s not easy to exhaust all the methods here so we will look into the most common and which one can easily use.

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