Photography Basics

Learn the basics of digital photography in easy steps

Looking into the frame

Another of the techniques I mentioned in my composition overview is a simple composition technique which works quite well and that is to give the subject of the image space to look into.
If you are taking pictures of people or animals and they are not looking directly at the camera, give them the space to [...]

What is the Rule Of Thirds

I mentioned in my overview of composition that one guideline is called the Rule Of Thirds and this involves dividing the image into a 3 by 3 grid like this:
 
 You can see in this example that the windmill is placed in the centre of the frame. This goes against the rule of thirds which says [...]

Composition

Composition is probably the most important thing to get right in photography in my opinion. Nowadays slight errors in exposure can be corrected on the computer but composition is very hard to put right unless you are a photoshop expert. Sure, you can crop your image and chop off the edges to get a better [...]

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