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Graduated from college. Got a job. Got money. Spent it on toys–camera and lenses. Got no time to shoot. 🙁 Unless you’re a professional photographer and are dedicated to take pictures full-time, there is no way you explore every inch of the land to discover photogenic sites. You want to go home with the most …
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 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 …
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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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 …