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| Cropping
For Composition |
Holidays
pictures can be greatly improved with a little help from photo editing
software, here we want to show you how cropping of pictures can give
suprising result.
The original picture on the right, though look nice, but the composition
is less than perfect. The sky (top) and the beach (bottom) do nothing
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removing the some of the sky from the top and beach from the bottom,
as shown on the right, turns the picture into a panorama. The picture
now emphasise on the two man fishing with the lovely sunset at the
background. |
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good thing about cropping using photo editing software is, you can
always undo your mistake, so try different ways to crop the picture.
Try cropping in landscape or portrait to stress on the objective in
the picture. You would probably be surprised by the end result. |
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| Placement
of subject in photo |
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The
subject in your photo should be the interest point, and the story
line of your photo should revolve around your subject. One way to
involve viewers in your photograph is to guide their eye through
the photo, in other world; their eye should start some where in
the photograph and travel across it. Avoid putting your subject
at centre; this will only quickly kill their interest. Image on
the left shows imaginary composition lines that helps placing the
subject at "hot spot.
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subject, the lady, was place at the hot spot. Viewer's eyes are
guided from the right to the left side of the photo.
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An
example of good composition image
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