Susan Brannon
26 July 2011
Photography Tips for Composition
Photography is not only cropping, cleaning and auto balancing your image to make that great shot. However, I understand that in commercial, portrait, and creative photography, cropping, resetting, and altering the images is the norm. Who wants to look at an advertisement for beauty cream with the face all blotchy and full of pimples? Have you ever seen a real live person that looks a perfect as they do in the magazine?
The secret for taking beautiful images lies in your aspiration, passion and admiration of the subject, if it be landscape, people, buildings or food. For some reason, when you are attracted to the subject it shows in your images and they reflect your passion. Using techniques such as composition, angles, light can help you to create a wonderful image, that can only be tools to help enhance your images. Using light can draw your focus onto your subject, the angle use can change the representation of your subject from short to tall for example.
Perspective is important while deciding on what angle to use, what light is best to set up your shot. Rule of thumb, take your time and never be in a hurry before taking a shot. Imagine in your mind that instead of using your digital camera that allows you to trash the images you do not like, you are using film. That precious film that costs so much to develop each roll and each shot depends on your angles, perspective, and lighting. This way, you can learn to be careful and think before snapping and shooting your image.
Here are a few important tips for enhancing your images:
Perspective:
Don’t just walk up to something that you want to take a picture of and snap a shot! Don’t only look at the subject from eye level! Walk around your subject, if you can, or take a one -meter step to your left, to your right, up and down while looking through your viewer. Do you see anything that stands out to you? Which position reflects what you want to show in your image? Take a series of shots from different angles. I saw a new stature in front of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy and walked around it. Like This!
You can see the difference with the various perspectives, just by walking around the statue and taking my time and looking at what I am seeing!
Which one do you like best?
Aperture and f/16 Rule
Shutter Speed Basics
Bracketing
Depth of Field
Focused Bracketing or Photo Stacking
Photography is not only cropping, cleaning and auto balancing your image to make that great shot. However, I understand that in commercial, portrait, and creative photography, cropping, resetting, and altering the images is the norm. Who wants to look at an advertisement for beauty cream with the face all blotchy and full of pimples? Have you ever seen a real live person that looks a perfect as they do in the magazine?
The secret for taking beautiful images lies in your aspiration, passion and admiration of the subject, if it be landscape, people, buildings or food. For some reason, when you are attracted to the subject it shows in your images and they reflect your passion. Using techniques such as composition, angles, light can help you to create a wonderful image, that can only be tools to help enhance your images. Using light can draw your focus onto your subject, the angle use can change the representation of your subject from short to tall for example.
Perspective is important while deciding on what angle to use, what light is best to set up your shot. Rule of thumb, take your time and never be in a hurry before taking a shot. Imagine in your mind that instead of using your digital camera that allows you to trash the images you do not like, you are using film. That precious film that costs so much to develop each roll and each shot depends on your angles, perspective, and lighting. This way, you can learn to be careful and think before snapping and shooting your image.
Here are a few important tips for enhancing your images:
Perspective:
Don’t just walk up to something that you want to take a picture of and snap a shot! Don’t only look at the subject from eye level! Walk around your subject, if you can, or take a one -meter step to your left, to your right, up and down while looking through your viewer. Do you see anything that stands out to you? Which position reflects what you want to show in your image? Take a series of shots from different angles. I saw a new stature in front of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy and walked around it. Like This!
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| Perspective 1 |
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| Perspective 2 |
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| Perspective 3 |
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| Perspective 4 |
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| Perspective 5 |
Which one do you like best?
Related lessons:
Shutter Speed Basics
Bracketing
Depth of Field
Focused Bracketing or Photo Stacking
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