The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the recently launched Fine Art Photoblog, and is participating in Project 365 – a photo a day for a year – on his blog. Composing a photograph well can seem to be a mysterious art: hard to master, even harder to explain. [...]
Image by Hel Des When posing a subject, two important questions to ask yourself are: 1. ‘where are they looking?’ 2. ‘what impact does this have on the shot?’ Early in the life of DPS I wrote a series of tutorials looking at the impact that lines can have upon an image. Lines are an [...]
One way of adding interest to an image and to draw attention to the main point of interest that you’re attempting to highlight is to incorporate an internal frame into your composition. A frame serves numerous purposes: 1. It gives the image depth and helps to give the perception to viewers of it that they’re [...]
Photo by Lorrie Riv As I mentioned yesterday – I was recently going through some of the first images that I ever took (as well as some taken of me) and came a cross a series of shots that particularly caught my attention (some shots of me as a kid from the 70′s). The reason [...]
Photo by Dalla* In a similar way to our previous post on breaking the rule of ‘Active Space’ when photographing moving subjects – a similar technique can be used when photographing people. When taking portraits it is customary to position your subject with more space on the side of their head where they are facing [...]
Photo by Jim Skea Another rule of composition that we’ve talked about previously is creating Active Space for moving subjects to move into. The idea is that if you are photographing a subject that is moving you should place more empty space in front of it than behind it. This gives the viewer of the [...]
Photo by straightfinder The good old ‘rule of thirds‘ makes a lot of sense in many types of photography (if you don’t know what the rule of thirds is see out tutorial on it). The Rule of Thirds does work well as a compositional rule in many situations – however placing your subject dead center [...]
Photo Puja This post belongs to our series of posts on breaking rules of photography to get great images. One of the ‘rules’ of photography that I talked about very early in the development of Digital Photography School was to do everything you can to keep your images ‘straight’ (and your horizons horizontal). There are [...]
Image by Stormygirl This tip comes from wildlife photographer Andy Rouse and is particularly aimed at those photographing animals – but is a tip that might be applicable for those shooting portraits in outdoor settings. Andy’s tip is one that I’d never considered before. He explains: “Don’t cut across your subject with the horizon as [...]
Photo by e-nikkos One compositional ‘rule’ (principle) that we’ve not talked much about since starting DPS is ‘balance’. While it’s a difficult thing to be specific about (it’s not like the Rule of Thirds where you can identify key spots on an image by imagining lines through it) it is a compositional factor worth considering [...]
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