Composing a shot

[tsoukai]

Nice info. Thanks.

[prgiunta]

great links. thanks.

[kencaleno]

Don't get too tangled up with rules or you will become so obsessed with technique that you won't be making images.

Simple way: Ask yourself 3 questions:

1. What is my main subject?

2. How can I emphasise my main subject?

3. What can I leave out of the image?

Regards, Ken

[thezen28]

Originally Posted by kencaleno

Don't get too tangled up with rules or you will become so obsessed with technique that you won't be making images.

Simple way: Ask yourself 3 questions:

1. What is my main subject?

2. How can I emphasise my main subject?

3. What can I leave out of the image?

Regards, Ken

Great advice! Sums up everything once you've nailed down the basics...

[ejmccartin]

Originally Posted by kencaleno

Don't get too tangled up with rules or you will become so obsessed with technique that you won't be making images.

Simple way: Ask yourself 3 questions:

1. What is my main subject?

2. How can I emphasise my main subject?

3. What can I leave out of the image?

Regards, Ken

off the cuff, these are very good rules to live by. for me as a novice, 1 is pretty straight forward - it's the thing that caught my eye, made me pick up the camera, 2 is where some of the techniques or rules would really be handy to keep in the back of my head and 3 is probably the most forgotten step of all but as important as 1.

I do whole heartedly agree with your first point, just shoot the pictures. review and reshoot if possible. it's the only way to learn and grow.

[richerimage]

nice post - useful.

[vinny]

Thanks, always very useful.

[Tantarado]

Thanks for the articles provided, it gives us Noobies sense of direction in capturing that great photos! We learn a lot from the articles.

Thanks & Cheers!

[Pinoy09]

Nicole this is very helpful im a newby using a sony A300... thank for yhe reference

[kencaleno]

First you need to know the diameterof the"circle of confusion" for your lens- I imagine this to be around.006mm. To explain hyperfocal distance: if your lens is set to shortest focal length- 7mm,using an F-stop of F4 (equivalent to F11 in dslr DX/FX terms) and is focused at 2.2 metres,all will be acceptably sharp from 1.1 meters to as far as you can see.
Depth of field is better explained as:
Depth of actual focus is 1/3 in front of focused subject,and 2/3ds behind.(Approximately)

Regards, Ken