Rule of thirds? Leading lines? The Fibonacci spiral? Learn it all with our deep archive of photography composition tips for beginner, intermediate and pro photographers.
Knowing where to place the various elements in your images is basic to great composition and unless you can master this your images will be average. You need to grasp these fundamentals early in your journey as you learn photography. A great photo is a result of a great composition. The quicker you learn this […]
There’s a list of ‘rules’ regarding what makes a good composition and a pleasing image. Things like the golden ratio, the golden spiral, and the rule of thirds. What you have to keep in mind, though, is that these ‘rules’ are merely guidelines that work in certain scenarios. Understanding these rules will help you composite even […]
Learning how to properly compose pictures can mean the difference between great looking pictures and bad ones. This article will help give you some tips to improve your photo composition and take great digital pictures. Filling the Frame & Clearing Clutter There are exceptions to this as you’ll see in a second, but generally filling […]
When starting out in photography, you can end up making the same mistakes repeatedly. Landscape photographer Mark Denney goes through some of the mistakes he made over and over and shares some composition tips to take your landscape photography forward: Going back through the archives and reviewing your own images is a good practice. It […]
APS-C lenses have a slightly longer reach than full-frame lenses even though they have the same focal length because of the difference in sensor size. If you’re looking for similar results when using an APS-C lens and a full-frame lens, you need to compose accordingly. Photographer Julia Trotti compares the results of some prime lenses […]
In this article, I will cover a core concept in photography that is neglected by a surprising amount of photographers. Photography is a wonderful mixture of science and art. The science part can be intriguing and is an important aspect but not the whole of it. Techniques like depth-of-field control, slow shutter speed effects or motion […]
Composition doesn’t come naturally to many photographers. The technical aspects can be learned relatively easily but some say that composition can not. Although I don’t believe this to be completely true, photography is an art form and does require some natural ability. So what can I do? My composition sucks. Composition is subjective so there […]
It doesn’t matter how technically perfect your images are if they’re not composed well. Photographer Tom Mackie shares seven composition tips for landscape photography and explores a wide range of photography composition rules in this video: 1. Leading Lines “Leading lines is probably one of the major parts of creating or designing a composition.” […]
Leave out all the technicalities involved in taking a photograph, and it’s composition that makes or breaks an image. No matter how technically complex your photo may be, if the composition isn’t good, the photo is a failure. Photographer Sheldon Evans sheds light on some mistakes that photographers should avoid when composing an image: Evans […]
Technicalities aside, it’s composition that defines an image. Your viewers probably don’t care what settings or equipment you used, or how you took the image. They are more concerned about what they see, and what they see is composition. In still life photography, composition is even more important. Creating visually interesting photos out of everyday […]
