UXOEOD wrote:
Is it just me, or what?
Each morning, over my first cup of coffee, as I peruse the photographs here on UHH, I am AMAZED by 2 things.
Firstly, the many wonders of the world we photographers see, enjoy, photograph and share. We truely live in an amazing universe, and collect wonders.
Secondly, the large numbers of oh so close to GREAT wallhangers, that miss the mark by composition, only. Everything about these photos are right, color, exposure, subject, story, feeling, you name it, it is right, except the final over all composition.
If we all, will simply practice the Rule of Thirds, and to have our "subject", what ever it is, look into the frame not out of, so many of the images would really be GREAT WALLHANGERS. People should look into the picture, birds fly into the picture, trains roll into the .... don't mean to be redundant.
Yes, there are times to violate the standard rules, but they are few and hard to find. I do not mean to lecture, but I think working on composition will make so many of us so much more satisfied with our photograhy.
Is it just me, or what? br br Each morning, over... (
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From time to time I make shows using ProShow Producer. They usually are 15 to 20 minutes in length and have around 200 pictures. Sometimes the pictures are mine sometimes they are other peoples. Without doubt there are more positive responses from viewers when most pictures are properly composed. Subconsciously I feel far more relaxed having watched a show with properly composed shots than I do with poorly composed ones and I think this also applies to viewers who know nothing about photograph although they cannot understand why. I think breaking rules can be good, but is never going to work so well as following at least some of them. I'm glad the builders who built my house followed accepted rules and standards.