The Rules of Image Composition are Both Fixed and Fluid

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Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter

Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter

If you are shooting people and simply take snaps of them representing nothing in particular all you are doing is creating a document.

You might as well just write a note to yourself that "George was in the living room."

Take a moment to identify your feelings towards the subject or observe the subject’s feelings towards themselves, their environment or others around them.

In other words look at what you are seeing and "see" something, something worth communicating through the final image.

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Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter Posted: 10 Jun 2011 12:36 AM PDT If you are shooting people and simply take snaps of them representing nothing in particular all you are doing is creating a document. You might as well just write a note to yourself that "George was in the living room." Take a moment to identify your feelings towards the subject or observe the subject’s feelings towards themselves, their environment or others around them. In other words look at what you are seeing and "see" something, something worth communicating through the final image.

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When Photographing Men in Formal Surroundings Tell Them What to do With Their Hands

In the absence of clear directions when photographing men, a sort of nervous hysteria will begin to set in.

This may result in them either striking some kind of silly pose or worse still, reverting to Neanderthal behavior and scratching their nether regions.

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The Technical and the Artistic of Photography

Photography is like any other field of the arts

it has a technical aspect

and a creative one.

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