Had I not shot up the signage, I would have shot an everybody’s snapshot. I placed the signage along the rule-of-third lines and used it as a strong foreground. The bright light at the top right intersecting rule-of-third guide lines was strategically placed, too, otherwise, it’s just a distracting glare.
Inside the Frame: Hutan Pinus
This is a textbook shot if you’ve been doing this for a while. It was natural to look up when surrounded by tall trees. I didn’t even need to get down low to get this low angle shot. 🙂 All the tree tops which congregated in the center of the frame formed a pattern–an important …
Inside the Frame: Badwater Basin
I had to crop some top portion of the photo because it had too much of an empty sky, so the dimension of this photo is not six by four like a typical portrait photo. Ideally, the photo would have more clouds on the top portion, or the existing clouds could move up a little …
Low Angle–You Could Never Go Too Low
I forgot my tripod and placed my camera on the ground to take the picture below. Low angle composition emphasizes the details on the ground, details that are not as visible on the eye-level when you’re in standing position. Low angle composition entails lowering your tripod to your knees or lower. If you handhold your …