Photo Tips, Part II

In Part I of Outdoor Photography I talked about outdoor portraits. Now I’m going to talk about creative ways to arrange an outdoor subject in a photograph. There are 5 compositions we will cover. Quickly and Easily…I promise.

1. Leading Lines: Use a natural line to draw the eye to your subject. Some examples are bridges, stairs or rock walls. Trust me, when you start looking for these they’ll start popping out to you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Natural Framing: This is kind of like the leading lines. You don’t notice them unless you’re looking for them. It can be anything from a big hat framing a face, an archway or a simple tree like I used here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Bright colors: This is easy. Use a bright color to draw the eye straight to your subject. But be careful that the bright color doesn’t over-power the subject of the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Unusual angle: Anyone can take a picture standing up. Get down…get DIRTY! Or get high. Or just angle your camera a different way. You can also take a subject and capture it a different way than usually expected…like I did here with Skadi’s shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAST ONE!

5. Rule of thirds: When looking through your lens, in your mind divide the image in the frame into three parts, horizontally and vertically. Where the lines intersect, that is where you should place your subject.  

                                    

 That’s it! Now that wasn’t so hard, now was it? I’ll be posting Part III (different types of light) tomorrow on Nature For Kids so keep an eye out!

Filed under Education |