Canvas Painting: Creating the Right Candid Moment

By Mary Kissidle

Taking a candid picture taken may not seem as tough as it is. Such photography focuses on capturing the subject in the midst of spontaneity rather than the techniques. With a good candid shot, it will be the marvelous candidate for your own custom oil paintings.

Many instances, the perfect children and pets photography comes from simple candid shots. Such special moments ought to be treated specially and nothing beats more than turning them into beautiful oil paintings. But first, we need to be able to take a good candid shot. Here are some useful pointers:

For a start, ensure that you always have a digital camera with you at all times. Besides making people around you feel at ease, you have to be prepared to capture candid moments at all times. You will not know for sure when one will arrive! Having a camera phone might come in handy as well.

It is nice to have a high quality, high resolution photo for converting into an oil painting. Nevertheless our artists are capable of turning a poorly lit, low resolution or blurry picture from a camera phone into a beautiful painting.

It is best that the people are unaware of camera. You might observe a change in behavior if they realized that they are being filmed. Such reaction occurs deep in the subconscious level of humans and even animals!

The goal of candid photography is have something unposed, and unplanned. Once you step into your subjects' personal space with a camera, their interactions will no longer be as spontaneous.

Try to fit into the surroundings as much as possible and not appear to be too obvious. You can do so by using the zoom function of camera while keeping a distance from the subject. Turning on your flash light is a big No. You don't want to risk making your subject feel uncomfortable.

If it is not possible to be outside of their personal space, keep taking photos for an extended period of time. Even if the subjects are aware of the camera, after a while they will take their focus away from it, and resume what they were doing before. This leads us to the next point:

Take as many photos as possible! You don't have to save on film if you are holding a digital camera. So just keep snapping away even if it's the same moment you are taking! Having multiple shots allow you the option of choosing the most well taken photo out of the many you took!

If your camera has a continuous shooting mode, or can take pictures in burst, take advantage of that feature, as it will increase your chances of capturing that perfect moment.

Mixing up the angles and perspectives creates more exciting and interesting photos too. One way is to shoot from your hip level. This not only makes shooting less obvious, it also render new perspectives. You can crouch down or stand on an elevation as well. Just let your creative juices flow!

It will be good if the picture is taken when the subjects are interacting with each other or in activity. Since they are in the midst of doing something, their focus will be on their activities and not you.

Their interaction also makes the photo more interesting since they are adding the element of their action to the story of the photo. The activity of the subjects will give more energy to the image and make it more alive.

When you take a live action photograph, there is a big difference between a posed one, and you can capture emotions and feelings a lot better.

Now you are all ready to create your own candid shots. Remember that unique moments need to be treated specially. And a portrait painting is all that you need to cherish those precious moments. - 31411

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