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 …
Strong Foreground–A Banging Composition Pattern
People don’t squat down and examine a rock–not most people. This is our opportunity as a photographer to present a perspective that most people don’t get to see. Start with a bang–that expression represents what the photo viewer will get with a close-up, in-your-face, exaggerated-in-size object in the foreground. You want to get really close …
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Rule of Thirds–One Rule to Rule Them All
I’ve started categorizing some of my best photos (52 down, hundreds to go) and found that over fifty percent of them applied the rule of thirds. When composing a photo, if there were to be one pattern to rule them all, it’d be the rule of thirds. Here are some photos which were taken with …