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Too often photographers use zoom to save walking up to the subject. Try thinking of zoom as a composition...

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Too often photographers use zoom to save walking up to the subject. Try thinking of zoom as a composition tool.

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How to Take Better Photos With a Zoom Lens

How to Take Better Photos With a Zoom Lens I'm Brian Cooley with a quick how to on taking better digital photos by using your zoom the right way. Now too often, photographers use zoom to avoid walking up to the subject or just because it’s just fun to play with. But there is a better way to think of zoom and that is as a composition tool. If your lens is in the wide position, you tend to gather a lot of background in junk and everything is in focus. That can make your picture busy and sort of unfocused on the compositional sense. But if you stepped back from your subject and then zoom back into it, you narrow the amount of annoying background and tend to flow it all out of focus a bit and your subject really pops. If you’ve got aperture control on your camera, you can force that to a larger aperture or a low F number to amplify these effects. So think of zoom differently and you’ll get some photos.

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How to Take Better Photos With a Zoom Lens

I'm Brian Cooley with a quick how to on taking better digital photos by using your zoom the right way. Now too often, photographers use zoom to avoid walking up to the subject or just because it’s just fun to play with. But there is a better way to think of zoom and that is as a composition tool.

If your lens is in the wide position, you tend to gather a lot of background in junk and everything is in focus. That can make your picture busy and sort of unfocused on the compositional sense. But if you stepped back from your subject and then zoom back into it, you narrow the amount of annoying background and tend to flow it all out of focus a bit and your subject really pops. If you’ve got aperture control on your camera, you can force that to a larger aperture or a low F number to amplify these effects. So think of zoom differently and you’ll get some photos.

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