If you would like to improve your digital photography then this may be one of the best articles you have read in a long time.
Below I will give you some great tips to help you improve the level of photographs you take, allowing you to take professional looking photographs.
One of the most important things to understand as an amateur photographer is that if you have a good compact digital or a basic digital SLR camera then you already have the tools needed to take professional looking photographs.
Many amateurs get in to the mindset that you need to spend thousands of dollars in order to get pro looking photographs.
OK so the first tip is to go pick up a newspaper and look at some of the photographs in there.
Look at how tightly cropped many of the photographs are.
Amateurs often make the mistake of thinking that in every shot you must have the subject dead center and fully in the frame.
In fact if you look at most shots in magazines the opposite is true.
By offsetting the main subject towards one side and tightly cropping images you can greatly improve the impact of your images.
A simple trick many pros use to to bracket your exposures.
This simple means that for each photo you take, take three shots at different exposures.
This way you will be almost guaranteed on exposure that is correct.
It is not always easy to tell good from bad exposures by looking at the LCD screen on your camera.
Most digital cameras have built in exposure bracketing settings that will automatically do this for you.