In most photographs, geometry already exists without you even making an attempt to incorporate it intentionally into your photograph. Think about the compositional guidelines we use in our day to day photography when capturing a photo – they all have some form of geometry as the basis. Almost all photographs that we capture have geometry incorporated in them in some form or the other.
In this article, we will look at how to use geometry for creative compositions in photography.
Photographic Composition Articles
Here are 10 tutorials that will help you get your hands on compositional techniques, so you can capture better photographs.
Ah, the Dutch. Of course, I could trot off a whole battery of generic stereotypes about the Dutch but there would be no point. You see the Dutch angle, aka the Dutch tilt has nothing to do with the people of the Netherlands. It is in fact a bastardization of the word “Deutsch”. This is, […]
I bet you’ve heard about golden hour photography, but how about blue hour photography? In case you don’t know what it is, blue hour is the period of twilight (in the morning or evening) when the Sun is below the horizon and indirect sunlight takes on a beautiful blue shade. It usually lasts just 20 […]
I was once exploring photos from other photographers while browsing a photography forum when I came across a rather interesting post. There was a discussion on whether or not subjects have to be interesting before you photograph them. This made me curious allowing me to think of my own thought process when it comes to shooting different subjects. It also made me wonder – why do we shoot what we shoot? Here are some ideas on how to create an interesting image.
Color is fundamental to composition in photography, and before anyone screams at me about black and white, it’s actually fundamental to that too. Colors can enhance our images depending on the way we use them. But how do we know which colors work together? Are there any color combinations we should avoid? It can be […]