Composition in photography. Correct techniques for excellent photos

We live in three-dimensional world and transferring this 3D world to the plane image means cutting off our reality! You can not show the real world correctly if you do not obey certain rules. You need to have knowledge of the laws of the Composition in photography, otherwise your photography hobby will be only meaningless pushing the shutter button and your photos will not be interesting for anyone.

In order to make beautiful, bright, colourful, memorisable photos, you need to know laws of the Composition, which came to us from painting. In addition to this, Composition in photography has its own tips and tricks. We will discuss all of this further in this article.

Advice.

Composition laws must be obeyed, but without fanaticism! Sometimes you may even breach them in order to get shots that are very different from one another.

Common sense of the good composed photo is when we looking at it with easiness and pleasure. We see logical connection between objects in the still and we like it! But, from the other point of view, sometimes photographer must break the rules of composition, in order to tell us about his creative idea and make us surprised!

Subject centre and balance in the image.

Every good photography must have some main object. For the sake of this main object photographer climbs to the top of the highest mountain, goes underwater, or travels to safari, or maybe just get relaxed at the friend’s BBQ and made a few shots. You may think about anything to be a centre of the image.

In order to shoot good image you need to find that centre of the main object. Then, you need to emphasize in your mind what is the most interesting for you. Maybe for the first time it will be difficult for you to pick up main centre and you will need to work out, using your imagination and looking around. But after some time of such training you will find interesting plots straight away.

You may also use “rule of the thirds”. This method almost always lets you achieve the success.

If photographer needs to change image composition, he can do this in few ways:

1. choosing certain camera angle;

2. choosing exposure correction;

3. cropping;

4. choosing right time to press shutter button;

5. changing focal distance;

6. choosing between portrait or landscape option;

7. producing;

8. using diagonals:

setting your main object matter on a diagonal will almost always make your photo more dynamic, move around the object and look for a diagonal with other objects in foreground or background.

Types of the Perspective in photography.

1. Hue perspective – when objects, located further and further down at the background are slowly losing their colour and hue depth and seem melting away in distance.

2. Linear perspective – when minor lines come together at the horizon and lead your look from foreground to the background and we can concentrate our attention on the important objects at the background.

3. Pattern or rhythm– when there are similar objects on the still and they are gradually decreasing while moving away from point of the shooting.

4. Foreground – when photographer places some objects at the foreground in order to make 3D depth to the picture as a whole.

One of the most important aspect in photography – it is the “key moment”; it is, when you press the shutter button at the most significant moment!

And I may tell you from my experience that you may be waiting for this special moment for quite a long period of time!

But this is what separates professional photographers with their patience and mastery, and amateurs, who prefer just point and shoot! So, if you want to make really interesting photos, you need to learn, how to be patient and watch closely how the situation is developing and always be ready to press the shutter button!