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Study the Principles of Composition to Do Good Landscape Photography

Article Category: Computers and Technology

Author Name: Kellie

If you want to do landscape photography you have to be familiar with the basic rules of composition. It's not enough to simply find a pretty │an attractive landscape, and then point and shoot your camera. Understanding how to compose pictures marks the difference between producing pictures that are worth framing, and those that simply end up in some dusty box or album. Here are some of the basic principles of composition.

1. What is the focal point of your picture? In other words, what do you want the viewer's eye to on? Is it that river in the background, or that tree in the foreground? Another way to put it is: what is your picture about?

2. Once you've determined the focal point of your picture then you can fill the frame with it. But don't forget to add context to the picture by including some background and foreground details to enhance it. Also, don't put too much into the frame or your picture will look cluttered.

3. Use the Rule of Three to compose your picture. To use the Rule of Three in your landscape photography imagine │picture a 3x3 grid (or a tic-tac-toe board) superimposed over the scene. Your focal point should be aligned │in line with the vertical or horizontal lines or at their intersections but never in between the lines.

4. Use lines or geometric shapes to the viewer's eye to the focal point. Lines can also help the picture flow by guiding the viewer from one part of the picture to another.

5. Be of the colors that you're using. Red, orange and yellow are considered "warm" colors while green, purple and blue are considered "cool" colors. You can also contrast or how the certain colors work together to create a certain effect in the picture.

6. Consider "framing" your focal point. Framing involves your subject underneath or within a symbolic frame, such as a doorway or a canopy of trees. It helps put the focal point in perspective, as well as adding a certain intimacy to the picture.

7. You can also highlight │emphasize your focal point through the use of "negative space" or stark light or dark backgrounds. For example, if a boat is your focal point, you can highlight it by photographing it against empty sea.

8. Balance the visual elements of your foreground and background. For example, if you have a monument in the background, you can put its size in perspective by putting a smaller object in the foreground. Conversely, you can also play with perspective by putting the camera closer to the smaller foreground object, making it seem larger while the background object looks smaller because it is positioned farther away.

Once you've mastered │familiarized yourself with all these rules, you can then experiment with your landscape photography and start to break them. For example, you can create contrast by putting two objects which have the same color, but are of different shades, each other. The rules of composition are only intended to be a jumping-off point, and should not be to your creativity.

Keywords: landscape photography, landscape photography tips, landscape photography ideas

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