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Use these landscape photo composition tips to take outstanding photographs.
Photo Composition helps you organize your image. Let’s look at some important aspects of photo composition together.
The focal point in a photograph is the main object or subject. To enhance the focal point, you can:
Place the focal point in the foreground or background (layer of interest).
Use a leading line to guide the viewer to your main subject.
Place the focal point to the extreme right or left of the image (vertical layer of interest).
The foreground, middle ground, and the background are layers of interest.
Images have horizontal, vertical, and diagonal layers of interest.
These layers help create the illusion of depth.
When you place something important in the foreground and another in the background, your image will have more depth.
Your photograph will have depth. Placing things in different layers will keep the viewer interested in your image.
Create imaginary vertical lines in your frame: Split the image into three or four vertical parts—they don’t have to be the same size. Now, try to place important information in a few of these areas.
Vertical layers help you organize and enhance parts of your image like you would with horizontal layers.
The diagonal layers are my favorite because they make an image look dynamic and create a bit of tension.
The horizontal and vertical layers are predictable, but the diagonal is not only a surprise but harder to find in nature and natural landscape photography.
When I was learning to photograph, I tried to use all the techniques and rules at once, and at the end of a shooting day, I was exhausted. My photographs looked awkward, and I felt lost!
Start slowly!
Practice seeing things and searching for the layers and lines before you photograph.
Don’t implement these techniques until you feel comfortable dissecting an image.
You will one day automatically see all the lines and layers without effort. That is when they will sneak into your photographs, and soon, you will be playing with layers and lines.
Layers and lines help you see and organize what you see so that you can take fantastic landscape photos.
I find vertical layers more challenging to see, so I don’t use them consciously. I use vertical layers and line techniques, but I prefer horizontal ones in my landscape photo composition.
I have friends who ONLY use vertical lines and layers!
You will see things your own way!
You may be the photographer who automatically sees the diagonal layers, but you need to focus to see the other layers.
We all react to the world around us differently.
For a great landscape composition photo, Practice seeing all the layers and lines and working with what comes naturally to you.
The foreground, middle ground, and the background are layers of interest.
They create the illusion of depth.
Why should you place something in the different layers in a photograph?
Layers create the illusion of depth.
A leading line guides your eyes toward your focal point.
The focal point is the most important part of a photograph—it’s the main subject.
For example, if you create a portrait of a person in a forest, the person is the focal point.
Yes, but I suggest you don’t have more than two because it will look too confusing.
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Marguerite Beaty, Blogger, Photographer & Artist
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