Tip #3: Activate your imaginary telephoto vision
If we – as we are walking – find a spot with interesting light, an interesting background or an interesting setting. Stop, imagine, prepare, and then wait for something- or someone interesting to enter that “stage”. These four steps will help you get more interesting photographs for sure:
- Stop: If something piques your interest, don’t ignore it. STOP!!… and…
- Imagine: Imagine what this could become, if a person with an orange shirt walks in front of that blue wall, or a person in a stride would jump over that puddle of water. Or if the toddler in the stroller who dangles their teddy bear over the side drops, it and the mother would stop, kneel, grab the teddy bear and give it back to the child.
- Prepare: You’ve seen it further down the street, you’ve imagined what could happen, now pick a stage and make sure, you – yourself – is positioned in the most advantageous spot, nothing obstructing your subject, with just the right background or framing, getting the light just where you think it would be best. Then adjust your exposure to reflect what you imagined.
- Wait: Now you wait for what you imagined to actually happen. It may take a minute, it may take more, and it may not ever happen the way you imagined. But you’ve given yourself a chance to make a photograph, and not just take a snapshot.
Continue reading this article go to Tip #4: Contrast is King, or go back to the introduction.