Image: regadenzia. Every work of art strives to be unique. Your photos can be unique if you apply certain photography composition techniques on your own way. Do not be afraid to experiment different shots and choose which ones look a lot better. This way, even if you have the same subject with other photographers, each one will be unique because of the composition. Image: Zdorj.
Composing the photo can also give it a sense of personality. It will appear your own and it can also speak for itself. Apart from telling its own story, it can also tell the viewers of the image that you were the one who took the shot.
Image: Victoria Ivanova. Bringing an image to life especially if your subjects are objects become possible with the use of proper image composition. Make sure that you will compose it rightly and your output would look like so alive and real. Photos like this get more attention and applauses. Image: Punk Diva. With the millions of photos worldwide and the availability of these on the internet, it would be a challenge on how you can grab the attention of the viewers to your own shot.
You can do that by composing your images. That is why, it is important to compose every photo so that it can shine from the rest of the photographs. Image: Thanit Koolkoksoong. No matter what your subject is, you will surely be able to get the true essence and value of it only if you compose it. I recommend you use this rule when it fits the situation, much like you would with shapes. If you want a dynamic composition, you use triangles, diagonal lines, and odd numbers. And if you prefer stability, you can choose straight lines, squares, and even numbers.
In any case, the important thing is to use the rules to your advantage and take control of your compositions. You can create triangles with poses in portraits, mountains in a landscape, or a church tower on your travels. However, if you want to up your game a bit more, you can use golden triangles. This composition technique divides the frame first with a line that connects one corner with the opposite one, then adds two smaller lines coming out from each of the remaining corners.
Ideally, you would place the most important elements of the composition where the lines intersect. To achieve this, you may have to tilt your camera; this is called a Dutch angle aka the Dutch tilt, German tilt, or Batman angle. The golden ratio is a mathematical term that was later applied to art and eventually photography.
It equates to 1. Instead, the grid is This composition tends to be more natural, as the golden ratio is also found in nature. It also has a better reputation than the rule of thirds, which many consider to be amateurish — a first step that should be quickly outgrown for more complex techniques.
This spiral is found in natural structures such as sunflowers, pine cones, seashells, etc. You can also find it in many artworks and buildings because many artists have used it throughout the centuries. To train your eye, you can print or draw a golden spiral, then use it to study the photographs from Irving Penn or Henri Cartier-Bresson , who both used the golden spiral to achieve astonishing results.
Now that you know most of the popular composition tools, you can use them to dramatically improve your images! Once you get comfortable with each composition guideline, you can combine them to achieve a more complex result. Which of these composition techniques is your favorite? Which do you plan to use in the future?
Share your thoughts in the comments below! You can use composition techniques, such as leading lines, to achieve this. Instead, rules work better in different situations, and the best technique for one photograph can be wrong for the next one. Yes, these rules apply to all types of photography, including mobile and video. If you want some help getting started, most camera phones have a grid overlay that follows the rule of thirds.
Alternatively, you can install a camera app that supports different types of grids such as A Better Camera. When you compose a photograph you have certain tools you can use. These are not tools you bring with you in the camera bag.
The most important are listed below:. This is the best known of the photography composition rules. I look at the composition rules as ingredients you as a photographer can use to make your image. You must now how to use and mix the ingredients to get good results. Not all of them can be used together and for some images many of the ingredients cannot be used at all.
It is like cooking. If you know what you are doing, you can make your own twist of the recipe, and make your own taste. Composition in landscape photography requires practice. There is only one way to learn the different techniques - go out and shoot.
You will learn the most from your mistakes and less perfect shots. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Share 0. Tweet 0. Pin 0. The goal is to keep the viewers attention The composition of a photo is what keeps the viewer in the photograph to further explore it.
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