Take Better Family Photos
Do your family photos leave you flat? Improve your snapshots with 13 tips from National Geographic magazine's world-class photographers. And find inspiration in the amazing photos from The Complete National Geographic—a searchable DVD-ROM containing every issue from the 120-year history of the iconic magazine.
Original Content | December 04, 2009
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Action Photos
If you routinely don't get the image you want—and instead get what happened just afterward—it's because the camera has to autofocus and take an exposure measurement at the same time.
If you can push the shutter button partway, the camera can take these measurements ahead of time. Then you can the picture right when you want to.
About the photo: From September 1999, this photo by Steve McCurry is of workers in a field in Kashmir.
Photo: © Steve McCurry/National Geographic
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