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taking your own pictures gives you the freedom to express yourself in every blog post
It’s wonderful when you find the right pictures for your blog post when you need them, but if you’re honest, you hate giving away that precious link to the owner of the photo. You trawl the web to find that perfect image to fit your article, and frankly, the ones you find are never just right, but you make do. Failing that, you purchase images from expensive websites – which you spend hours looking through. But what if you could take your own picture for your post? What if you could have the perfect image for your blog post every time?
Of course, the only way to get perfect, free images for your articles is to take those pictures yourself. You don’t have to be a skilled photographer to secure the perfect photo. Here are some tips on how you can kick out the middle man, save some cash, and effective take pictures for your own blog post.
Take pictures for your post randomly
As I mentioned before, you don’t have to be a photographer to take good photos. You don’t even have to carry a camera if you don’t want to. A good enough mobile (cell) phone with a suitably high pixel quality will be perfect for what you need. You’ve been blogging long enough to know what kind of pictures you generally need. If you have a relationship and self-improvement blog you know you’ll need lots of photos of couples, heart-shaped items, people confidently staring out into space 
families having fun etc. Note: anonymity has to be maintained at all times if taking photos of people you don’t know. Distance shots or ones in shadows are always preferred to face-to-face images – unless you have permission to print these.
Set up pictures for post you’ve written
Between writing and editing your new article, you can set up and take pertinent pictures for the post. The article is fresh in your mind, and you alone know exactly what it’s about. Have you just written a post about making money online? Then it’s easy to set up some bank notes near your computer and photograph them. Have you written about ideas for blog posts? Then you can set up a scenario of a light bulb over a person’s head (yourself in a mirror) and take a photo of this. By the time you’ve gone back to your post to edit and publish it, you will have taken lots of picture you can use. Don’t forget you can also photograph notes you’ve written (on fruit, hands, the fridge etc) and play around with “˜paint’ on your computer for tons of great photos.
Take action pictures
of family and friends
Don’t be coy about asking family and friends to pose for your camera (or phone). If they’re shy about showing their faces, you can always take pictures of their shadows, or have them turn their backs. Taking great pictures is not just about taking someone’s facial expression (unless this is vital to the article itself). Taking a picture of the shadow of a couple running together says the same thing it would, were the picture of the people themselves.
Set up and take pictures of sayings and proverbs
With just a little imagination, you can set up several well-known proverbs and sayings Depending on your article, you can easily set up “˜money down the drain’, “˜man’s best friend’, “˜a bird in hand”¦’ “˜the middle man’ “˜on top of the world’ etc.
Take pictures when on holidays and trips
I’ve recently come back from a holiday in France. For the first time ever, I’ve returned with stunning pictures, not only of the family enjoying themselves, but I’ve taken dozens of images to use on my blog (the above photo was taken on holiday). I’ve taken a lot of pictures of the family in a distance or from the back. I’ve captured scenes of serenity and calm, freedom and confidence. I think I may have my stock of photos for the next year for all my blogging needs! Most of these pictures were taken with my phone. They’re not professional pictures, but they’re better than a lot of the ones I’ve used on my blogs in the past – pictures to which I had to leave links because they came from other people’s sites. Taking pictures when you’re on holidays and trips works well because you’re relaxed and not really thinking about work. Taking photos become more of a pastime and you’re able to be more creative, not to mention – sharpen your skills.
Hosting your pictures
Taking your own pictures also works very well for guest blogging. You never have to share your limelight and all the links point to you – not someone else. Flickr and Google pictures (Picassa) are great places to host your images. I use these, but I’m sure you already have a favourite site for hosting your pictures. A point to note: when you’ve worked hard to achieve the right photo for your blog post, you can optimize your pictures with abandon as yet another way of bringing traffic and earnings to your site.
So stop spending hours and cash looking for, and paying for pictures online. Start taking your own photos for your blog post. Who knows, you may discover that you have a natural talent for photography! All you have to do is start. You’ll see how easy it is to do.
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Do you take your own pictures for your blog post?
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What is your number 1 tip when it comes to taking the best pictures for blog posts?
