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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.

Composition in Photography

Composition in Photography

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 […]

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Composition: 10 Photography Tips for Amazing Results

Composition: 10 Photography Tips for Amazing Results

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 […]

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Landscape Photo Composition Tips

Landscape Photo Composition Tips

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.” […]

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Composition Mistakes to Avoid as a Photographer

Composition Mistakes to Avoid as a Photographer

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 […]

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Useful Composition Tips for Still Life Photography

Useful Composition Tips for Still Life Photography

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 […]

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Composition: When Should You Break the Rules?

Composition: When Should You Break the Rules?

Tutorials on composition are about as common as seagulls on a shore, but every once in a while we come across a guide that goes a little bit beyond the norm. In the following video, portrait photographer Eric Floberg adds bit more dimension to the standard rules of composition: The key to Floberg’s composition choices […]

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10 Useful Tips for Landscape Photography Composition

10 Useful Tips for Landscape Photography Composition

Have you been looking for new ways to improve your landscape photography? Schubert Photography explains some helpful skills he utilizes for his landscape compositions. Make sure you pay attention to all ten! Although you may know some of them from previous tutorials or your own experience, there is always something new to learn from an […]

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How to Use 3 Key Compositional Guides in Photoshop

How to Use 3 Key Compositional Guides in Photoshop

All complex photography techniques aside, composition is a basic skill that every photographer needs to master. Composition can either make or break a photo. While composing in-cameras is always preferred, sometimes you may come across a situation requiring you to make adjustments to the composition during post-processing. Aaron Nace takes you through some basic Photoshop […]

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Composition and Editing Tips for Beach Photography

Composition and Editing Tips for Beach Photography

The first thing someone notices when they look at any image is the way it has been composed. It’s not the technical aspects that people pay attention to at first, but on how the elements in the photograph are arranged. This is why composition can either make or break a photo. Fine art photographer Serge Ramelli […]

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8 Composition Tips for Cityscape Photography

8 Composition Tips for Cityscape Photography

Cities are synonymous with a modern, fashionable, and busy lifestyle. Photographing in the city allows a photographer to capture human beings amidst the sophisticated structures that they themselves have created. Interesting architecture, geometry, and aesthetics of the city can be very appealing subjects to photograph, too. The COOPH team, in association with photographer Niklas Nischke, presents the […]

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