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Reply 3840

Pegasus2

Original post by ZRO

What DSLR are you using?? Very nice photos there :wink:

Canon 550D and thanks!

Original post by unruly1986

Awesome. I have the same camera and this has given me some inspiration.

Cool, I'm glad about that, just as I have taken inspiration and learnt from others.

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Reply 3841

hasan4life

Reply 3842

KieranClarke

hopefully this'll work

Reply 3843

KieranClarke

Original post by Antp93

A few from my latest shoot...
http://antp.tumblr.com
http://antp.info
http://krop.com/antp93
http://flickr.com/photos/ant93

Diagonal framing? come on mannn

Reply 3844

Pegasus2

Your images need more composition. This is a bit of an art but I will atempt to explain. I did like your first image.

When shooting a horizon, it should be straight and not through the centre of the photograph. Either 2/3 top or 2/3 bottom or retracted right down.

A photo should be balanced, objects should balance each other in some form, centralised objects lead to poor framing most of the time.

Lines of objects should have convergence at some point. Eg: Lines should converge to a single point short of any corner of a photograph. Imagine a box within the photo, with a boarder about 1/6 of the image thick, the four corners are good focal points. These can also be at an opposed perspective to show a double aspect.

Try not to cut objects out of the photograph, this looks awkward and incomplete. (Eg: the arial in your second to last image.)

Photographs should aslo have primary and secondary focal points that lead the eye into the image. You can see this effect if you look at the centre of a photograph with a strong focal point and sort of relax your eyes, they will be pulled towards it.

In this image the first focal point is the last car, with the line of cars leading the eye through up the road towards the top right and into the distance. If you notice, nearly all lines lead up to this point in the distance, the railings, edge of the road, direction of the cars, the white line etc. The railings help to balance the photograph.

It depends what you are shooting as to what rules apply and of course, these rules don't have to apply if you don't want them to.

I hope you can find this info useful and get more from your images.

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Lisbon, summer 2012.

Ooh... It's difficult picking an absolute favourite from all my photos, but if I had to pick some of my best these would definitely be contenders!

Reply 3849

DH1'

Not mine but i had no idea where to post it, and it's probably not as amazing as any of the pictures posted in this thread so far. It looked really cool so had to share it.

A couple of Hula Hoops in a mug of Coffee: