These examples will explain to you how you can improve your own photographs. Perhaps some of these recommentations are obvious to you, but if you stick with them, your shots will certainly become more expressive.

The sun is in the frame: Use telephoto lens

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Portraits: Use telephoto lens or move the zoom display from wide angle to telephoto

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Trips: Add some action

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Shooting night scenery: Shoot 20 minutes after the sunset

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Shooting leaves: Limit the palette, highlight the main object

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Humans are in a horizontal position: Avoid legs being the center of your frame

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Macro nature photography: Come closer and get down on the plants’ level

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Genre scenes: Communicate with people who you take pictures of

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Motion: Follow your object, leave more space in front

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Colorful textures: Create a center of your picture

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Flowers: Lower down to the petals to see the skyline

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Street photography: Use the burst mode on your camera

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Children’s portraits: Shoot close-ups getting down on the child’s level

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Urban landscapes: Take photos on a sunny day in the afternoon

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Landscapes with a bright sky: Trim the top of the frame with the parts of foreground

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Men at work: Draw attention to the action by showing its observers

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Rain drops and dew: Use a macro lens, shoot close-ups

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Portrait: Don’t locate human’s head in the center of a frame; blur out the background by opening lens diaphragm and increasing the distance between the subject and the background

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Landscape with small details: Close the aperture and use the foreground as your frame, give attention to the most significant objects

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Horizon line: Avoid deviations when framing

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Aspect ratio of your photos: Select it based on your photo story

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Bright objects on a dark background: Manually darken the picture by selecting -1.0 correction for exposure value

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Reportage photography: Come closer to the subject; take a few shots from different angles

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Shooting at the zoo: Hide the cage and any foreign objects; change the angle and decrease the depth of field

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Architecture: Keep the buildings' verticality, hold your camera steady

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