Photography: DSLR Photography Made Easy: Simple Tips on How You Can Get Visually Stunning Images Using Your DSLR (Photography, Digital Photography, Creativity) by Brown Dwayne

Author:Brown, Dwayne [Brown, Dwayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dwayne Brown
Published: 2015-01-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6 - Rules for Visually Stunning Images

Now that you’ve covered most of the basics of your camera, it’s time to empower the photographer!

This chapter will walk you through some of the most popular techniques most experienced photographers use to create visually stunning images that make it to the top of the search engines.

THE RULE OF THIRDS

This is probably the first thing any professional photographer will tell you when you ask them for tips. It’s one of the cornerstones of hobby photography which will help you avoid taking boring and dry shots.

The basic rule of thirds indicates that your subject should fill about three-fourths of your frame. Try drawing some imaginary lines on your frame before you take the shot. You can so this by dividing your frame into nine sections.

Doing so will give you four lines across the frame. Two of these lines go across, and the other two go vertically along the height of your frame. With these lines in mind, the goal of the rule of thirds is to place your main subject along the intersections of the four lines. By doing so, you’ll be positioning your subject to occupy three-fourths of the frame.

As you might have noticed, most great pictures don’t really have their subjects placed dead center of the shot. Although it is easy to focus on such a position, it creates a stale image without any value. The rule of thirds was created as a guide to help photographers avoid the center of the frame and find other ways of balancing the weight of the subject on one side.

The main premise of the rule of thirds is to avoid the static middle unless you’re shooting a portrait of someone. Once you’ve gotten used to drawing those lines, you’ll develop a better sense of where to place your subject and yourself before hitting the shutter.

THE RULE OF SPACE

This may be confusing when placed next to the notion of filling your frame, but sometimes, you might need to allow for some free space within your frames.

This is not to give more room for your subject but to lead your subjects towards something outside the frame.

For example, if you take a portrait of a man facing to the left, it leaves a certain question to the viewer. Where is he looking?

Leaving some unfilled space between the gaze of the man and the edge of the frame will invite your audience to gaze in the same direction as well. You would have successfully expressed an idea through such a simple technique.

Imagine the same picture taken vertically where the gaze of the man immediately meets the edge of the frame. Instead of looking like he’s gazing into something, he would look like someone just slapped him in the face! Be careful when using space though. You do not want to give too much space in your frames as it will distract your audience. You want to leave just enough for their imaginations to do the rest.

THE RULE OF ODDS

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