These are tips I learn from my brother whose more passionated about photography while I, the bad example of Jack of all trades, just like to play with everything.
Auto Bracketing
Auto bracketing is feature in cameras that allows you to take shots of varing exposure. This would help if you do not know how much exposure to set, so you different results and you have a option to keep and throw away the picture you want.
Now now lets say in a picture, using high exposure over exposes certain parts while exposing dark areas of the picture while low exposure brings in the details of the bright areas. So with digital editing, you could just get the best parts of the 2 pictures, and you have 1 less feature on the camera that you don’t understand.
Note that with higher exposure you get more motion shake too.
Deleting Pictures
There’s one problem with me and perhaps some others - taking too many photos. I can understand the reason and I feel that at times- “Taking more shots increase more chances of capturing a nice photo”.
However, too many shots is a waste of space and reduce the quality of the photos. Thats the reason sometimes my brother would take RAW when JPG can store 10x more on his his 512CF cards, so you value and be more careful for each shot you take.
As for me, the remedy after taking so many shots is DELETING them. You can ask yourself why did I take this shot? Could there be a better shot? Is this shot really nessary? What’s nice about this? Esp. if you have multiple shots on a same subject you could start to consider a decision. Then take a last look at it(go ahead view it as slideshow/fullscreen), then delete it! (Although some again would just abuse imageshack or something before deleting them)
Thinking of valuing shots, I guess it doesn’t beat going back to film (B/W).
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