Six Common Mistakes And Remedies
Smart Photography|November 2019
Often you might have lamented that your photographs are not looking good. What could be the reason? While there are many suggestions on how to improve your photography, we at Smart Photography thought that we will bring to you the six most basic errors that photographers make and suggest steps for preventing them. All these are very simple to practice and will improve your photography tremendously.
Six Common Mistakes And Remedies

Let’s start with a list of the six common mistakes before we make a deep dive.

Inclined horizon

Leaning buildings

Wrong use of flash

Forgetting previously set parameters

Ignoring exposure meter is calibrated to a medium tone

Blurred images due to camera shake

Inclined horizon

Who does not like to photograph landscapes? Unfortunately, most look bad due to one very common error, which is the inclined horizon. Also called the ‘crooked’ or ‘misaligned’ horizon, the inclined horizon simply means that the horizon is not level, or in other words that it is not perfectly horizontal. This happens when you don’t hold the camera’s base parallel to the ground (Picture 1). The effect will be obvious even if the horizon is tilted less than a degree! An inclined horizon is worse if there’s a water body, as water maintains (Picture 2) its own level. In the case of ‘land shots’, one could argue that the land was inclined. Still it’s best to keep the horizon level.

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