Basic Photography by: Kristin Breeden

Hey everyone, here are a few tips on taking a picture.

#1 Remember Photography is not just about people.

#2 A picture can be as simple as taking a picture of your own window blinds to as complex as taking a photo of a friend and having them think it’s ok instead of hearing, “Oh, No don’t show them that picture I hate how I look in that one. Here are some Examples.)

#3 Try and keep the backdrop or background simple, like in the last photo the backdrop is a tree, it’s soled and it fills the frame of the picture from top to bottom. Other examples of simplicity and simple backdrops are.

#3 Continued: the above pictures have no distractions in them and there is only one focus point in each picture and that focus points the object in the picture. now this won’t be true for all pictures.

#4 Avoid objects in the exact center. Divide the canvas in thirds, vertically and horizontally, placing the subject to the left or right of the middle square with room to move. EX)

#5 This is an S-curve in the picture that leads the eye to a specific subject to the end of the path. Ex)

#6 Lines that are artistically interesting to look at and are the main subject of the picture.

#7 Framing has something in the foreground to frame the subject, and gives depth of field to the picture. In the example the framing is the out of focus leaves and branch.

#8 Remember almost all these rules can be used to take pictures of people or objects some rules are more for one picture then another but there all I hope useful tips in tacking a photo.

Hear are a few other photos that might help you decide what kind of photos you want to take.

All Photos above were taken by: Kristin Breeden

If you would like more information on photography,

Or just more pictures to set your sites on.

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http://www.betterphoto.com/home.asp

If you have any questions contact me

kristinbreeden@empirecollege.com