Photography Guide: Composition

Develop a critical eye

Make note of the information on this website, but the real lessons in photography is for you to experiment and to look critically at the photos you take and other people's photos you see. Over time you will develop an eye for composition and you too can take great looking photos that will truly capture what you see.

Photo Opportunities

Landscapes - It is often difficult to capture what you see in a dramatic landscape.
People - photographing people provide a great opportunity to capture the feeling of a culture.
Sunsets and Sunrises - the changes in colours as the sun rises or falls are beautiful though create some challenges for the photographer.

Techniques

Photographing Motion - using camera techniques to capture the effect of motion
Close-Ups (details) - getting up close can give you a whole new perspective.
Using Wide Angle - information about making the most this feature of your camera.
Framing - No, we are not talking about putting an actual frame around the photo, but composing the shot so that there is a virtual frame created by the objects in the photograph.
Night Shots - night time photography poses some challenges for the photographer.