Photo composition rules

  By semisatch | June 26, 2011 - 12:24 am | Uncategorized Leave a comment

We can find several rules, or we could better say guidelines that can improve our photography and composition skills. Tips that are mentioned below can definitely improve your photography skills if you try to start think about them during taking your pictures!

Tips below represent essential composition rules that are well known and frequently used in professional photography. So, have a look on them and let’s discover the wonderful world of professional photography.

There is a whole theory behind the fact how photography and its composition can impact people and viewer, but basically you should always think about the main theme of your photo and draw attention of the viewer to it.

Once you start to think about photography in different way and the simple composition rules will get under your skin, it will have very positive impact to your photos and composition. So let’s start!

Rule No. 1: Golden Ratio (The Rule of Thirds)

This is one of the most known and also most powerful composition rules! It is also very often referred as golden rule or golden ratio. You can always think in way how to divide your image into thirds. After that you try to keep the main subject of your composition near to the thirds of the image. This simple composition rule will drastically and significantly improve your photos!

Rule No. 2: Use of significant lines

Other important element of your photos and your photo composition can be found in significant lines that you can possibly found in your scenery. With the lines you can also significantly help the photo in respect to its dept. Lines can significantly improve the impression from two-dimensional medium to three dimensional impact to the reader.

Rule No. 3: Use of symmetry

Symmetry can be very powerful tool to improve your photography composition. But also be careful with this rule as it can be easily become distracting if used in wrong way! Here are sample examples of symmetry in use:

Use of patterns

For the patterns, a similar rule as for symmetry applies.

Cropping

Cropping is a very important and also powerful technique that can improve or completely destroy your photo composition

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Practical tips to improve your photo composition

  By semisatch | February 14, 2012 - 9:13 pm | Uncategorized Leave a comment

Today, I would like to share with you one practical approach, how to improve your photo composition. One point of view is definitely use of rules and their absorption to your style. But the second, not less important thing is how to ensure practical approach and how to apply rules to real situations.

Photography student are usually taking a lot of photos when they start shooting and playing around the photography. This also means that they are not taking enough time thinking about composition of their pictures. One simple think that can really boost your quality of your photos is usage of tripod.

Tripod is usually used for long time photography to ensure sharpness of the photos but there is much more advantages that his one. The second side effect is that you also take much less photos than shooting from hand. This means that you have to start thinking much more about the picture itself, about the composition, about the mood of the scene, and that is the point where we need to get.

So there is one challenge that I have for you. Use tripod when you go outside to take photos. Every time. Just promise yourself not take any picture without tripod. You will very soon realize how big effect have this simple rule to your photos and how big improvement can this be. The reason behind is that you set a barrier for easily take pictures whenever you want and this led you to think more about what you really want to shoot. Is this really worth shooting? Should I really take the effort to set up tripod to shoot this picture? There are the elementary questions you should have in your mind every time you want to take any photo.

Good luck and have a lot of fun!

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Cropping in photography

  By semisatch | January 15, 2012 - 8:12 pm | Uncategorized Leave a comment

Nowadays it is very easy to use cropping tools in photo softwares. You can improve you photography very significantly. Try to always remember about the main concept of the photography and what should it say. One common rule in photos with person is that there should be more space in the photography in the area where are the eyes looking. This is really good way how to not disturb the readers of your picture.

Creative Approach To Photography

  By semisatch | January 15, 2012 - 6:39 pm | Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article should give you an idea about linkage between creativity and rules. It is often said that you have to follow rules in photography if you want to get good results. This can be true when you study how to make good pictures but I think that there is a certain point of time, where you have to learn how to break the rules to get to the higher level of creativity and to create something completely new.

So why I can not do this from the beginning?
This is the question I have tried to answer for myself dozen time. The answer is not so easy but is in theory, you need to learn the rules first to know how to break them.

Most of the greatest artist are doing just the same. Breaking the rules, but they know what the are doing and that is the difference.

Hope this help somebody!

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