How do you make your pictures artistic for stunning looks?

The idea of engaging in Photography is not just a mere fact of taking shots but the story being told by a picture is what makes such a picture worth buying, selling or using for a project. Photography is an integral part of Communication Design that is very significantly used to aid communication to a target group of people. Information is sent out each and everyday but the number of effective communicative messages sent out there I think are quite a lot. Many are ignorant of the fact that the images posted on social media, news reports, documentaries among other media send out unnoticeable messages in addition to the intended ones. Designers especially make careful analysis of the images they add to their design works be it in a video, documentary or whatsoever because the basic work of a designer is to communicate and the message sent out must be clear and legible to comprehend.

As a media personnel, get informed with these few tips so that going forward you can make your photoshoots reach a level that the images will speak for themselves in sending our messages. 

Photography no matter the device used, the concept employed by the photographer is what really matters the most.

Be creative in using light

Photography no matter what kind of photography it is uses the basic but very important element called LIGHT. There are some types of lighting used like the backlighting, split lighting, side lighting, broad lighting, loop lighting, etc. The image shown below of ants shows a very skillful and artistic use of natural light which is the sunlight. The picture creates some kind of feeling and looking at this one major photography technique used here is the creation of shallow depth of field. This simply means that the main subject of the image which is the ants have been framed to be in focus whilst the background is blurred. To create a shallow depth of field of an image, one technique is that you use a small f/stop number which is using a wide aperture maybe f/2.0, f/2.4, f/4.

Create elements in the picture 

What element of Photography can you spot in this picture particularly on the leaf? TEXTURE is at work here and this is only achieved with careful use of light as the light is what makes visible the subjects we capture. Three-dimensionality in an image is achieved through a creative use of light so you cannot afford to take pictures anyhow without regard to what role the light available plays in the image.

Try many shots until you get the right picture

Probability of getting the desired image right just at first shot is possibly low even if you have all the concepts in mind because experimenting on the ground births many realities. Hence, never get discouraged if multiple shot attempts fail to hit the target as it is in trying and trying that the foreseen kind of image is finally obtained and this is what makes you think in a dynamic way because you have diverse experiences in just one concept you wanted to create with a particular shoot.

Change the point of view- can be low or high

As earlier stated, an artistic image should communicate some weird feeling in a viewer's mind and this is what creates interest in looking at an image the second time. Shooting at very low angles or views can be one of the great ways that artistry can be factored in an image to create interest and catch a viewer's attention. 

Get close to the subject

Like the picture of the snail shown below, it is very obvious how getting close to a subject for a shoot can create form which is the three-dimensionality earlier mentioned as it is one of the things professional photographer always look out for. This technique creates undoubtedly stunning effects and feelings in a picture and effective communication through the use of an image is achieved once the image is very explicit to understand and read meaning into. An ambiguous image will be so ineffective that it can't communicate the message it was created for.

Photography is a very powerful tool to communicate diverse kinds of messages but it takes that person who is able to use the codes of photography effectively to be able to make the most out of it. You want to be an excellent designer in advertisement through the use of images, then explore the full potentials your image capturing device offers and be ready to make the most prudent decisions as you take the images.