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Big Catch Photography Tips It's all about perspective. |
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Highly technical diagram of the tips to the left.
Forced perspective is the name of the game and it applies just the same with your FishStoryPics. Technically, we are forcing the forced perspective a little more by manipulating an existing image. However, it makes for an even better FishStoryPic if a couple simple tips are taken into consideration when taking those pictures before you send them to us. Nothing too techy, here. Just some simple composition ideas to try.
1.) Hold your fish high. Lift the fish about as high as your face. Try to hold it a little to either side of your face, too, for added perspective and so everyone believes it is, in fact, you holding that monster.
2.) Hold it out. Hold the fish away from your face and closer to the camera, but not too close as to push the minimum limits of it's focal length causing a blurry fish.
3.) Have the photographer take a slightly lower than level angle. Just a few inches to a foot lower than your face is enough. Shoulder height is a good place to hold the camera.
4.) Use a one-handed hold, if possible. Two-handed holds make for some awkward positioning later when embellishing the fish.
Don't worry, we're not going to tell you that you have to go and spend thousands of dollars on camera equipment to get a good picture to send us. You don't. Even relatively inexpensive digital cameras nowadays can take high enough resolution pictures to get the desired effect when we exaggerate the photo. We're not going to go into a ton of technical detail either. Although, there is one setting on your digital camera to pay attention to before taking those future FishStoryPics.
Image Quality/Size: Make sure your quality/size setting is at its highest. This may be referenced as Normal, Fine and Super Fine, or possibly by the actual resolution options. Just choose the best setting. The higher the quality setting, the better the FishStoryPic will be and the more print options you will have, if you choose to do so. A 10 megapixel camera for example, will probably have a 3872 x 2592 resolution at the high end. That would yield up to nearly a 19.36" x 12.96" print.
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