More Composition Tips

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a. Shoot a frame within a frame using minimal depth-of-field, with leaves, tree limbs or other framing devices in the foreground.

b. Give your subjects plenty of room in the frame to breathe. Avoid having the subject too close to the border, which makes it feel crowded.

c. Watch out for merging lines. If these merging or intersecting lines get in the way of the subject of your photo, they will be very distracting.

d. If you’re photographing moving subjects, try to photograph them moving toward you. When you do this, you can usually get away with a slightly slower shutter speed than normal, since action coming toward you is easier to freeze than action going side-to-side in front of you.

e. Look for “s” curves and fold them into your composition.

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0 comments on “More Composition Tips”

As always…great tips!

Thanks. :)

Thanks for the tips

You should really collect all these tips into a book. You could have 101 secrets or some other random number.

“88 Secrets” has a nice ring to it… ;)

I was wondering if you could give some examples of an “s” curves and folding them in to a composition.
Thank you for the insightful information.

Craig the vulture’s wing is shaped in an “S” curve :)

“88 Secrets about 44 Photographs” ;)

(if you remember “The Nails”)

“88 Secrets about 44 Photographs” ;)

(if you remember “The Nails”)

Scott thanks . I was thinking of that vulture’s wing as more of a rule of 3rds with a upward left to right diagonal for the eye. But I can see an “s” now also now that it is pointed out.
Thank you again. This is all very helpful

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