Wednesday, August 21, 2013

An Online Digital Photography Course - Basic Composition Tips


An online digital photography course will teach you many aspects of photography, probably the most important being composition. One of the main problems with nearly all photographs is not filling the frame properly with the subject that is being shot. One of the biggest causes of this is that most of us do not look at or take in to consideration the whole scene that presents itself through our cameras viewfinder. We have a tendency to think that, once we have the main subject, be it a person or a landscape in the viewfinder, that we are going to have a great shot. This is why we tend to be disappointed with a lot of the pictures we take.

The good news is that this is very simple to fix and these 3 easy steps will work with any camera, the 3 steps you need to take are as follows:

1. When you look through your viewfinder,make sure that you do not have any big open spaces.

2. Try not to include any details that may make your image seem cluttered, because this will inevitably take the attention away from the subject being shot.

3. Make sure you remember to get as close as possible to your main subject without cutting part of the subject out.

These 3 very easy to implement steps you can use immediately and certainly you do not need an online digital photography course to teach you them.

One helpful trick that use each and every time before I take a photo is, I will look at all 4 corners of of the lens frame through the viewfinder to make sure that I have properly used the 3 steps above, usually by doing this I can catch any composition errors before I take the shot, it is then a simple matter of making any necessary adjustments and taking the shot.

If you can get yourself in to this habit you will be surprised at the difference to the quality of your photos, and put you a step above your fellow students in your online digital photography course.

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