Easy trick dramatically improves pictures

After a long silence, I'm back ...

In the past few weeks when observing some friends and familly members taking pictures at different social events I started realizing that most of them do not move! They just see an interesting scene, pick their camera and shoot. Just like with many things in life the result is somehow proportionnal to the effort you put in. This may sound like common (photography) sense to many others, but one needs to move to take good shots. Move up and down (knee on the ground to take that wonderfull kid' shot at his eyes level, not at yours; bent your legs to take poeple's shot while they are sitted at dinner table, again, be at the same level as their eyes), move left and right to find an unusual perspective or get the best lighting, move back and forth because your super zoom lens will never provide quite the focal range that would be ideal for all shots.

Frankly this makes an amazing difference. I was with a friend at a birthday party a couple of weeks ago and when looking on her DSLR screen at the pictures she had taken, I realized she'd shoot everything while she was just standing up. What a dirrence!

Having said so, this reminder is mainly addressed to me. I'm too often lazy ... and disappointed by the results.