Photography Composition
All the tutorials on this page cover various aspects of photo composition. The idea of these articles is to teach picture composition from photographer's point of view. Each tutorial gives ideas and tips about how to apply photography composition rules in practice.
Image Composition
This tutorial describes the meaning of picture composition in photography and how one can learn to take better photographs. Mastering the photography composition is the key to compelling photographs.
Rule of Thirds
A tutorial about the famous picture composition rule called rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is one of the most well known photography composition tips. The tutorial explains the usage of the rule of thirds in practice in photography.
Simple Composition
A tutorial about how simplicity can be used as a compositional effect in a photograph. Description about why the saying "less is more" often applies to photography.
Photograph Close
This tutorial describes the benefits of shooting close up photos. Close up photos have several benefits that one often neglects.
Give Space to Subjects of the Photo
How to give space to subjects of the photo to balance the composition of the photograph? The orientation of the elements in the scene give clues about how to arrange them to achieve a balanced photo.
Framing Inside of Photos
A tutorial about using frames to make the photo more effective. The tutorial doesn't discuss digital frames but frames that can be found everywhere in the outdoors.
Things to Avoid in a Photograph
A tutorial about things that should be avoided in photographic composition. One often sees several distractions in photographs that could have been very easily avoided.
Unusual View Angle
A tutorial about enhancing composition by using unusual angle of view instead of a natural one. This tutorial concentrates on creating something different than what everybody sees.
Meaning of Depth of Field
The meaning of depth of field in photography and it's use as a compositional effect. Effective use of depth of field can emphasize the chosen parts of the photo and therefore enhance the photograph dramatically.
Difficulty Level of My Tutorials
The following table gives some idea about the difficulty level of my tutorials. I aim to write user friendly tutorials that can hopefully help many people. Still, some of these tutorials may require that the user has at least some earlier knowledge about photography.
Advanced photographer
Composition Tutorials Elsewhere
Excellent WWW pages with useful photography composition tips and articles:
Other Photography Related Materials
Other photography related materials on this Web site include:
Latest Photography Composition Tutorials
Things to Avoid in a Photograph
Unusual View Angle
Framing Inside of Photos
