Wednesday, November 23

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Tips tor taking great holiday pictures

The holiday season gives usa lot
of wonderful opportunities to create
lasting memories. The photographs
that you take now, during this
special time of the year, wiil be
cherished as mementos of your
family celebrations in the years
ahead.

To get the most cut of your
picture-taking...

© Don't get bogged down in
equipment! The easiest camera to use
is an auto-focus, auto-everything
compact with a zoom lens. There's
no hassle or fussing with leases and
flash attachments. Simply drop in
the film and the camera loads itself,
advances and rewinds. It uiso focuses
automatically and has a pop-up flash
for dim lighting situations.

@ Have plenty of film! There's
nothing worse than running out of
film on a holiday. It's almost
impossible to find a store open that
day.

© Keep your camera ready! This
seems almost too obvious to
mention, but the bese photos are
often the ones that are most
spontaneous. And if your camera is
in the kitchen, when you've seen a
terrific photo possibility in the
living room, you've missed an
opportunity.

© Enjoy the advantages of a zoom

. A zoom lens lets you adjust the
picture from wide angle for group
photos, to telephoto, which brings
a distant subject closer or picks out
one particular subject. With it, you
can shoot the scene just the way you
want it. And the Shotmaster Zoom
makes it easy ... it goes from 38mm
to 76mm (and everything in
beeween) at the touch of a button .

© Use the telephoto to take portraits.
When photographing children
playing with a new toy, use the zoom
to get a close-up, rather than

moving yourself closer ro them and
posstbly disturbing chem. You'll end
up with o better, more spontaneous
f iSTETO.L

* When taking photos of the kids
opening their presents, get down to
their level. When children are
playing on the floor, taking pictures
from an adult's perspective makes
them look as af they've been
photographed from a bird's eve view.
Getting down where the action is
makes them look more natural.

If your subject is illurninated from
behind, use a fill-in flash. Again,
the Shatmaster Zoom mak easy
because the camera “reads” a
backlight: situation and provides the
fill-in flash automatically. And if

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you're too fer away from your subyeet
tor the flash, at's backlight
compensation balances the light in
the picture.

Use the self-timer to include
yourself mn the photo. Family pheros
are best if they show the whole
family... and that includes your! Use
the self-timer, and you've gor plenty
of ume (about 10 seconds) to join
the group in the photo. {t's also a
good idea to use a mini-tripod (a
great stocking stuffer) or a beanbag
to stabilize the camera.

Don't wait too long to snap a group
photo. If you're taking a posed group
picture, have people line up,
compese your shot, say “smile” and
do a fast one-two-three count: so

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they don’t look frozen in place. The
key here is notre fuss too long.

Most of all, have fun while taking
your photos,