How the average Joe can become a big shot
By RICHARD NICOLAS | Feb. 5, 2007With new technology, a good photograph doesn't necessarily have to come from a professional. Cameras the size of a mouse can produce images similar to those seen on the sides of buildings in New York City, and even cell phones can produce decent shots.Twenty years from now, we will be rifling through photo albums on facebook wondering who the heck that beautifully possessed red-eyed demon was standing next to us in a basement in University Heights.Junior history major Joshua Walther has already found those ruined images from freshman year on his personal computer."Photographs hold a dream-like quality that helps you reanimate a sequence of events in time which occurred when the picture was taken," he said.Now, blurry overexposed photos that look like a preview for the next Terminator movie, an epidemic of poor photography, can be held at bay for even the most amateur of photographers.Daniel Calleri, the instructional support technician for the Department of Visual Studies has shed some light on a few tips that could greatly improve your photography:Compose each shot.
