Composing a shot

[Nicole]

I was organizing my bookmarks, and came across a number of links on tutorials and advice about composition. If you ever wanted to know the basics (or more) about composition, these are some good starting points.

• Photography Composition Articles Library (really, more articles than you could ever want to read on the subject)
• Geometrical Composition Guides (guides that you can use in photoshop as an overlay on your picture to see how it fits on your picture... I think I got this link from someone in these forums)
• How to Compose a Photograph (Article by Alain Briot, a landscape photographer with a Masters in Fine Arts and who is working on his PhD)
• Gloria Hopkins Articles (includes some articles on composition, but also a few other interesting articles)
• Nikonians Composition 101 (Explains 5 tips for composition and shows examples of why they work)

Hope these help

[hpebley3]

Thanks for sharing!

[Triglav]

He that is great. Thanks for sharing!

[trelaflip]

those are great sites. thanks

[DanelleJon]

The first three site look very informative. Thanks for sharing!

The following site is no longer available. I just tried this site today:

Gloria Hopkins Articles (includes some articles on composition, but also a few other interesting articles).

[Nicole]

Edit: I found that she's moved her articles to her actual website. The link has been updated.

[Nicole]

Added a new link to an article I was reading over at Nikonians on Composition 101

[ER :-)]

Thanks for the sites! very informative indeed!!

[mkhasan]

Some very helpful links. Thanks for sharing

[cwi27121]

Hi all,

I went throught the Article library given by Nicole.It was nice and really helping. Thanks a lot Nicole for sharing that.... In that library the Depth Of Field Calculator confuses me in some aspects.Let me draw down my understanding first and then my problem and please correct me if i'm wrong some where.

DOF: the depth of field (DOF) is the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus. If you want to add more emphasis to your subject,it should be in focus, the background and fore ground can be blurred, total DOF has to be less. helps lot while shooting small objects,small animals,portraists. On the other hand, while on a lanscape ,scenic photo the DOF has to be maximum, so that all the elements or areas in the photo will be crisp and clear.

Hyperfocal distance: "the hyperfocal distance is the closest distance at which a lens can be focused while keeping objects at infinity acceptably sharp". It is said as all objects at distances from half of the hyperfocal distance out to infinity will be acceptably sharp.

Can some body please corelate between DOF and Hyperfocal length ...?
Now let me spread out the doubt a bit practically. I uses panasonic Lumix DMC FZ50. When i used DOF calculator i have given the camera model as FZ20 which is the earlier version of my cam. Actual focal length is given as 63 mm(300 mm in cam). aperture 2.8, Subject distance is 50 feet.
Now the results are total DOF is 5.42 ft. Hyperfocal distance is 921 ft. So if i take a photo in my cam with the above specs how will it be...?

Will it be like..
1) at 50 ft my subject is clear...!
2)at 100 ft if there is a fence it will be blured...?
3) the fence if there is an out line of a small hill. Will it be blurred or clear...?

Thanks a lot....
Sudeesh Rajashekharan