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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 595481" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>From a technical perspective your photos look great to me. What I personally find lacking, overall, is <em>engagement</em>. By that I mean there's really no clear subject that grabs and/or holds my attention. In my experience learning to compose a good shot is not something that simply happens after you take enough shots, you have to really WORK at it. You have to learn the principles and how to apply them and then you can start bending them and breaking them... <em>Effectively.</em> There are a lot of good resources online that will teach you some basic guidelines, things like the Rule of Thirds, Pattern, Repetition, Juxtaposition, Leading Lines, Symmetry, S-Curves, etc. </p><p></p><p>A really superb book on the subject of composition is Roberto Valenzuela's, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Perfect-Practice-Self-Training-World-Class/dp/0321803531/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481605717&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Picture Perfect Practice</a>. If I could have only one book on composition on my bookshelf, this would be it.</p><p></p><p>Almost as essential, in my opinion, is Michael Freeman's, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Eye-Composition-Design-Digital/dp/0240809343/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481606240&sr=8-1-spell" target="_blank">The Photographer's Eye</a>.</p><p></p><p>I also love this video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4h9vhtSGA" target="_blank">Photography Composition Basics</a>. The production values might leave something to be desired, but there's about a metric ton very solid information in that 20-minute video. I watch it from time to time just to refresh my own thinking on composition.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 595481, member: 13090"] From a technical perspective your photos look great to me. What I personally find lacking, overall, is [I]engagement[/I]. By that I mean there's really no clear subject that grabs and/or holds my attention. In my experience learning to compose a good shot is not something that simply happens after you take enough shots, you have to really WORK at it. You have to learn the principles and how to apply them and then you can start bending them and breaking them... [I]Effectively.[/I] There are a lot of good resources online that will teach you some basic guidelines, things like the Rule of Thirds, Pattern, Repetition, Juxtaposition, Leading Lines, Symmetry, S-Curves, etc. A really superb book on the subject of composition is Roberto Valenzuela's, [url=https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Perfect-Practice-Self-Training-World-Class/dp/0321803531/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481605717&sr=8-1]Picture Perfect Practice[/url]. If I could have only one book on composition on my bookshelf, this would be it. Almost as essential, in my opinion, is Michael Freeman's, [url=https://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Eye-Composition-Design-Digital/dp/0240809343/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481606240&sr=8-1-spell]The Photographer's Eye[/url]. I also love this video: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4h9vhtSGA]Photography Composition Basics[/url]. The production values might leave something to be desired, but there's about a metric ton very solid information in that 20-minute video. I watch it from time to time just to refresh my own thinking on composition. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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