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PictureCorrect.com: Diagonal Lines in Landscape Photography
Today’s landscape photo tip involves diagonal lines. In a landscape photo, portrait photo, still life or any other kind of photo, the first major task of the photographer is to draw the viewer’s eye to the most important aspects of the shot and keep it there!
“SG Skyline” captured by Jet Rabe
We want our photo to send some sort of message. If not, we shouldn’t be taking the shot. So we want to be certain that our viewer’s attention is focused in the right area. By the way, the message we’re sending could be as simple as wanting them to see an attractive cloud formation or some pretty colors in a rainbow—whatever.
We’re taking the shot because something in that scene attracted us and we want the viewer to see it, too.
This is actually the whole point to the photo composition rules. To make sure the viewer sees what we want them to see in the scene.
First, let’s consider how a person looks at a photo. Obviously it’s not a hard and fast rule. After all, people are individuals. But eye tracking studies have shown that people tend to start off in the lower left of the frame and let their eye travel up toward the upper right. Add to that the tendency of a viewer’s eye to follow natural lines in a photo and you have the genesis of a pretty powerful compositional tool.
In photography, diagonal lines starting at the lower left and traveling toward the upper right are very powerful.
“Reflections of Calatrava” captured by George Grivas
Why does the viewer’s eye typically go from left to right? For many of us, it’s because we’re accustomed to reading from left to right. We tend to look at all text and photos in that way.
Keep this in mind… I haven’t seen any studies to support this, but I suspect that in countries where people read from right to left, the viewer’s eye will travel from right to left. In that case, design your diagonals to lead them into the photo from right to left.
Keep your potential viewers in mind when you’re designing your photography composition.
When you’re trying to determine where to place your diagonals, try not to start or end right in the corner. Photography diagonal lines that split the composition in half are no more interesting than placing the main subject in the bulls eye position.
Your diagonal lines don’t have to be an actual line. It could be a fence drawing a viewer’s eye, the horizon (if you’re shooting at some funky angle)—anything!
Try this: have diagonal lines coming from both right and left and converging at the subect of your photo.
While vertical and horizontal leading lines are nice compositional elements, diagonal lines are more dynamic and will impart more strength and verve to your shot.
“Delegal Creek, Skidaway Island, Georgia” captured by Doug Herrick
Your assignment for today is to get out there with your camera and find ten different ways to add diagonal lines to your photos. This landscape photo tip—while it seems simple—is one of the big photo composition rules. Master it!
About the Author:
Dan Eitreim writes for ontargetphototraining.com. He has been a professional photographer in Southern California for over 20 years. His philosophy is that learning photography is easy if you know a few tried and true strategies.
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Photographing stars you usually need a compass - but not in the Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory/Australia. Some termites here somehow managed to use the magnetic field of our earth to build this unique kind of mounds, which are alligned from north to south. They look like flat tombstones, but their secret is that the sun warms up the eastern side first after cold nights, while the midday sun only reaches a small part of it directly - so it never gets too hot inside. via 500px http://ift.tt/1PTRBK5
PictureCorrect.com: Wedding Ring Photography Technique
If you’re into wedding photography, you know that one image that you must have is the ring shot. As simple as the shot my seem, it’s often frustrating when you have to deal with a bad background or poor lighting. In this video Paul Keppel demonstrates an easy to use technique to make that ring shot in less than a minute and with brilliant results:
Equipment
Keppel uses a Nikon D750, full-frame camera, paired with a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens. His secret is in the lighting. He uses a Yongnuo Ny 160 Mark II, which is an inexpensive LED video light. This light has a set of barn doors attached to its sides, and therein is the trick.
Keppel stumbled upon this technique quite by chance. Once while shooting, holding the LED light in one hand and the camera in the other Keppel’s arms started to get tired. He put the light down on a piano, balanced on the barn doors, and in that instant an idea struck him.
“I literally put the light down and the next minute I realized that it’d make a perfect little softbox like a light tent for the rings. And that’s how the shot came about.”
Technique
Place the rings on a shiny or metallic surface. The edges of the rings should be on the same plane so that both of them are in focus.
Next, place the LED light, balanced on the barn doors, on top of the ring.
LED light placed right on top of the rings
Open the front flap so that you can shoot through. Placement of the rings will depend on your artistic vision. Keppel places them about three quarters to the back. That way the light tends to wrap around the subject.
Shooting through the barn doors
Focus, and make the image.
Simple isn’t it?
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