I know the number one sought out item for the 2006 Holiday season was a digital camera and I am going to assume it’s on everyone’s list again here for the holidays in 2007. I’ve actually been shooting photography for various print magazines since late 2004, so I have a couple years under my belt. One tip I would love to offer to all you newly found camera owners is to concentrate on producing some quality images. Flickr and photobucket are already over run with enough horrible shots from people who clearly should never be using a camera.

A great starter tip is take a photo that would generally be boring and place it behind a marvelous or much more exciting background. It helps to take an item outside of it’s element as well. For example, shooting a flower in the dessert will bring your eyes to pay much more attention to it. This example here is the Weapon R Scion XB that I shot for a Canadian magazine in Las Vegas a few weeks back. The car was taken off the street and onto a sidewalk to remove the car from it’s element. Then we placed it next to trees and a very exciting roof structure to really enhance and compliment the car in the image. The example can be seen below of how this was done.

So remember these tips when you are on the prowl for a new camera in 2007. Also, keep in mind to check out Ritz Camera for a wonderful digital picture frames once you take your much improved images on that new camera!

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