Creative Digital Photography Lyn Belisle Five easy tips to help you take more interesting photo...

Creative Digital PhotographyLyn Belisle

Five easy tips to help you take more interesting

photo compositions

Face into the composition to create a sight line that keeps the viewer involved. “Walk” into the photograph visually.

Although the photo, above, is “prettier”, the composition

suffers from the position of the child – she is leaving the frame.

If she had been on the left side of the setting sun, it would have

been a much better shot.

Up close and personal – don’t be afraid to crop to get a better shot.

Picturing an imaginary nine-space grid is a tried-and-true way of improving the composition – some cameras include this as a

framing aid

Use curves, triangles and odd numbers instead of straight lines and even numbers.

Look at it from a different perspective . . . . .and use objects as “frames”

Five Easy Tips• Face into the composition to create a sight line that keeps the

viewer involved.• Up close and personal – don’t be afraid to crop to get a better shot.• Picturing an imaginary nine-space grid is a tried-and-true way of

improving the composition• Use curves, triangles and odd numbers instead of straight lines and

even numbers• Look at it from a different perspective . . . . .and use objects as

“frames”

…and HAVE FUN!