How to Take a Great Photo

Photography these days is cheap and easy to do, and there's pretty much no excuse not to do so. The only problem is making a great shot. Even though any person can pretty much go out, buy a camera, take a photo, it's difficult to take just one great picture of something.

On choosing your camera, never settle for the middle. You should either get your camera really cheap, or really expensive. The cheaper cameras offer you a wild side of film that gives you over-saturated colors, extreme vignetting, and the "cool" type of blurriness. On the other hand, the expensive DSLR (Digital Single Reflex Lens) cameras have a wide range of features along with the ability to change lenses. So, with DSLRs, you can take photos from far away or up close, make everybody look like tiny ants or give a wide-angle fisheye perspective, and either capture the wings of a hummingbird or make a stylish motion blur. The problem with the middle-land point-and-shoot cameras is that they are too well-built to offer the wackiness of the cheap Lomo-style cameras, and that they don't feature the customizable abilities of the DSLR cameras. Therefore, if you take the compromise, you'll have less of a chance of taking a great photo.

Once you have your camera in hand, go somewhere. It doesn't really matter where you're going, as long as it's someplace unfamiliar. Be risky with your shots, take a picture from outside your car's window when your driving, shoot from the hip, and get up close (physically, or with a long lens on the DSLR). These shots are some of the best, because it shows a different perspective from what everybody is used to, and have wonderfully unexpected angles.