How to improve your photography #5

It's sometimes easy to spend too much time playing with camera settings rather than actually taking the picture. Try taking your camera and put it into a fixed mode : set a fixed zoom (focal length), a fixed aperture or shutter speed (by choosing aperture or shutter priority) and force yourself to leave it that way. Go out the back door, take 20 steps and stop. Then, from that spot, take 20 different photos of whatever is near you. It will help you concentrate on composition rather than the techy stuff…