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A highly popular spot–you’d better get here early to claim a few limited spots. I went up to the last spot available and made do (and had to do some cropping to the original composition). The highlight of this frame is definitely the (glowing) arch, but I had to cut off the top of the …
I included the Bougainvillea flowers to add an accent to an otherwise (somewhat) monochromatic landscape. I placed the flowers on the bottom right intersection of “rule of thirds” guide lines. The whole shrubs in the foreground could be considered an application of photo composition technique strong foreground, but I got more in-your-face, stronger foreground applications …
This may look like a photo with a strong foreground composition, but this shot was taken from much closer distance–normally can only be done with a macro lens–it deserves its own composition pattern: close-up. Additionally, there’s nothing of worthy in the middle or background of this photo. This close-up shot was taken to highlight the …
It’s a carefully composed busy scene here. On the foreground I placed the log on the lower third of the frame, and, on the mid-ground, a mini waterfall on the upper third. I showed some branches with leaves on the top and the left edges to frame the scene and show more of the environment. …
I cropped a lot of objects in this scene, namely, the boat and the rows of trees on the bank of the lake. I want to highlight the lake–the (cut off) trees and boat are there to provide some context. Imagine how not including the boat and the trees would change the scene. I placed …
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 …
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 …