Part One - Guidelines for Good Composition
by Chuck Gardner
3) Isolate and simplify:
 Once you determine what the center of
interest is and have located it at one of magic thirds, eliminate anything in the
frame which distracts from it. Do this by cropping in the camera (move closer or
zoom in) or by changing your camera position.
 For example, in this photo I
cropped out the distracting light background on the left, and darkened the tone
of the tabletop so the viewer's eye would be draw to the lighter yellow tone in
the boat. I also removed the distracting cyan candy wrapper on the in the lower right.
Distracting backgrounds can be minimized by shooting down on the subject from an elevated position, or shooting up from an very low camera position. If it doesn't help draw the viewer's eye to what you want the center of interest to be get rid of it. Less is more. Goto Next Page > Goto < Previous Page Goto Class Outline Goto super.nova.org my home page. |