Breaking Digital Photography Composition Rules
Quarterly Advanced Contest continued.
We will be looking for: 1. Technical Proficiency – exposure, printing, color, etc. 2. Composition 3. Emotion( did the picture elicit an emotional reaction from the viewer?)
Feel free to bring in or e-‐ mail your work prints to focalpoint @ onlinehammonton. com for comments as you finish up your projects.
To help I’ ve copied and pasted this article from the dummies. com newsletter.
Breaking Digital Photography Composition Rules
By Doug Sahlin
Although you can find all kinds of rules when composing a photograph, rules are made to be broken. When you take digital photos, you need to know these composition rules— but you don’ t always have to follow them:
Don’ t center your subject.
You can break this rule when your subject is so powerful and occupies most of the frame that it demands to be on center stage
Don’ t center your subject.
You can break this rule when your subject is so powerful and occupies most of the frame that it demands to be on center stage.
Don’ t tilt the camera to fit a tall object in the frame.
When you have a unique piece of architecture whose height you want to exaggerate, tilting the camera is just what the doctor ordered. This figure emphasizes the height of the structure.
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