This is a collection of pieces of advice to make your everyday photos more enjoyable to look at; a little more with every post. These are only bits which do not claim to be complete, but are rather all you need to know at that moment.


I assume my readers are non-professionals who are interested in capturing their memories in the way they have experienced them, instead of how their camera device automatically suggests an output, thereby speaking of using anything from a mobile phone to an auto-set DSLR.

About the author: I am Mareen Fischinger, a professional photographer, living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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heyzulhafiz asked: i just got myself a 50/f1.8 prime,i have been shooting a lot of things with it, from people to food and even building,i totally love it. Is there any tips or advise you can give so i can improve my utilization on the lens?

secondly, i want to shoot a person with the sky/cloud as the background, i always end up either able to only see the background&the subject is dark OR white sky/cloud&able to see the subject. how i can i get both?

Nice!

The lens is at it’s full bright potential when you open the aperture almost all the way. This means you should set your camera to AV and open it to f/2 or even f/1.8 and let the shutter time be adjusted to that.

About your second question, read below, I have already talked about fill flash.


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