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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.
The temple in the middle of the frame is the most famous backdrop to take pictures with around sunset time. I went to a higher platform to show the overall setting of the temple. By pointing down the lens, I effectively took the picture of the temple from a high angle. I used seemingly stray …
The opportunity to take pictures from a higher vantage point is rare–take it. I took this picture from a platform above the Cliffwalk–suspended walkways off the granite cliff face. I ensured to include a bit of platform on the top left of the frame to act as a foreground. The main subject–a portion of Cliffwalk–was …
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My tripod legs were on the sand, with the sea water constantly sweeping under. It wasn’t easy to capture bracketed shots before the sand shifted slightly and moved the tripod along with it. Capturing the water movement, though, was worth the effort. For a strong foreground, I placed the outcrop on the left, occupying about …
I rarely shoot a full-length Christmas tree because a shot of a lone, tall Christmas tree is a snapshot (a photo a non-photographer takes). Most Christmas trees are alike as such, introducing another element in the frame will separate your photo from the rest. The wooden reindeer makes a perfect strong foreground because they’re the …
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What’s the best way to show the height of a summit than the reading from a GPS device? A GPS device leaning on a hiking backpack place prominently on the foreground at one of the most important positions on the photo undoubtedly says we just hiked a really high summit. A group of hikers sitting …
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 …
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 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 …
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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