Photography Composition Techniques

Many photographers buy telephoto lenses to help them make photos of distant subjects like wildlife. But another way to use them is to simplify the composition of the your photos. …

Discussions about photographic composition are often based on the idea of placement – that is, where you should place the main subject or focal point of the photo in the …

We’re often told to get in close and fill the frame, but what if we take a different approach? What happens when we step back and include negative space around …

In color photography it’s tempting to use bold primary colors like red, blue and yellow to create strong compositions. Yet it’s often more interesting to compose photos with subtle or …

You can make strong, dramatic photos by utilizing two key elements of photographic composition – shadow and contrast. These compositional elements are so strong that I created five assignments for …

Some of the most memorable photos you’ve seen make you feel part of the scene, as if you could just step into the photo. How do photographers do this? The …

To help with those of you doing the assignments in my new ebook 100 Composition Assignments I thought it would be interesting to explore four techniques that will help you …

Good photographers learn to create interesting compositions using the colors they see in the natural and man-made worlds. Color contrast – which is really about the way that certain hues …

One of the ways to use balance in composition is to help you decide where to place your subject in the frame. Rather than placing your subject on a third …

In The Three S’s of Composition I gave you a new framework for thinking about composition in photography. The three S’s are simple ideas you can remember and use to …