https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxO-6rlihSg
- Horiztonal Horizons
- hold the camera with the horizon (no jaunty angles)
- saves crop and loss
- Rule of thirds -
- Use grid
- if person walking, put bigger space to the side they are walking. Move/See into.
- Focus on the eye
- Exception is reflection shots
- Composition beats fitting everything in
- Framing
- Deliberately include something near in landscape photos to give it depth
- Check your backgtound
- Make the subject contrast
- Don't like poles etc come out of peoples heads and distract
- Fill the frame
- Folks know what things look like, crop them out
- Leading lines
- use to guide the eye, make it come from the corner
- Anything but eye-level
- go high and go low,
- meet a subject at their level (dogs, cats), more intimate
- take shots looking up
- Look for details
- spot small things, reflections in eyes
- raindrops on leafs, feather details
- Vertical shots
- some subjects fit this better, also changes landscape photos is it has a depth
- Break the rules
- sometimes try a weird thing