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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 197836" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>I think your edits make huge improvements. That crooked horizon line being fixed makes for some good angles. Removing the electrical elements from the bridge shot really helped as well. That's a good exercise in "taking out the trash".</p><p></p><p>As for composition, this has been the hardest thing about photography for me to begin to grasp. It's an ongoing thing and I've learned, mainly, how much there is I have to learn. Still, if you want to elevate your photography from, "Oh, nice shot" to something more like "Wow! That's amazing!" then you have learn composition. I hate to call them "Rules" but they exist for a reason and that reason being, they work. They're universal, and they work and we as photographers ignore this fact at our own peril of self-imposed mediocrity. Some good starting points I can suggest are here:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/digital-photography-composition-tips/" target="_blank">Digital Photography Composition Tips</a><br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/12/10-rules-of-photo-composition-and-why-they-work/" target="_blank">Ten Rules of Composition and Why They Work</a></li> </ul><p>Searching for "photographic composition" on YouTube or Google should give you good hits to follow up with. If you want something more in depth (!), take a look at Micheal Freeman's <a href="http://mirror.paramadina.ac.id/pub/linux/doc/book/The%20Photographer%E2%80%99s%20Eye%20-%20Composition%20and%20Design%20for%20Better%20Digital%20Photos.pdf" target="_blank">The Photographer's Eye</a> That link goes to very large .pdf file that will take it's own sweet time to open, so be patient. Once it does open, I suggest saving it to your hard drive; it's an excellent resource.</p><p></p><p>Personally I find a few particular concepts are almost foolproof: Leading Lines, S-Curves, Isolating a Subject, Rule of Thirds and, my new favorite... Negative Space. Remember, though, these rules do flex and have broad application... The Rule of Thirds applies not only to where to place the subject of a photo but also horizontal and vertical balance as well. 1/3 foreground, 2/3 sky is just one example. You can reverse the proportions to redirect emphasis, depending on what your subject is, but it's much harder to get a good shot by ignoring these proportions altogether. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 197836, member: 13090"] I think your edits make huge improvements. That crooked horizon line being fixed makes for some good angles. Removing the electrical elements from the bridge shot really helped as well. That's a good exercise in "taking out the trash". As for composition, this has been the hardest thing about photography for me to begin to grasp. It's an ongoing thing and I've learned, mainly, how much there is I have to learn. Still, if you want to elevate your photography from, "Oh, nice shot" to something more like "Wow! That's amazing!" then you have learn composition. I hate to call them "Rules" but they exist for a reason and that reason being, they work. They're universal, and they work and we as photographers ignore this fact at our own peril of self-imposed mediocrity. Some good starting points I can suggest are here: [LIST] [*][url=http://digital-photography-school.com/digital-photography-composition-tips/]Digital Photography Composition Tips[/url] [*][url=http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/12/10-rules-of-photo-composition-and-why-they-work/]Ten Rules of Composition and Why They Work[/url] [*][/LIST] Searching for "photographic composition" on YouTube or Google should give you good hits to follow up with. If you want something more in depth (!), take a look at Micheal Freeman's [url=http://mirror.paramadina.ac.id/pub/linux/doc/book/The%20Photographer%E2%80%99s%20Eye%20-%20Composition%20and%20Design%20for%20Better%20Digital%20Photos.pdf]The Photographer's Eye[/url] That link goes to very large .pdf file that will take it's own sweet time to open, so be patient. Once it does open, I suggest saving it to your hard drive; it's an excellent resource. Personally I find a few particular concepts are almost foolproof: Leading Lines, S-Curves, Isolating a Subject, Rule of Thirds and, my new favorite... Negative Space. Remember, though, these rules do flex and have broad application... The Rule of Thirds applies not only to where to place the subject of a photo but also horizontal and vertical balance as well. 1/3 foreground, 2/3 sky is just one example. You can reverse the proportions to redirect emphasis, depending on what your subject is, but it's much harder to get a good shot by ignoring these proportions altogether. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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