Photography tips - Part 2

If you use a monotone voice to communicate with your friends, they’ll probably think you’re boring, likewise, if you use a boring foreground your audience will loose interest. Dave Gaffney in his book “50 tips to great outdoor images” says that "there is nothing more striking than an image with wildflowers splashed across a foreground". There are many cool effects you can use with your foreground. You can use it to draw the eye into the picture (like the example on top). Frame the picture (like the example on the bottom). Or just create something exiting in the foreground (like Dave Gaffney says).

Would you want to talk with a person who rambles on so much you forget what his or her main point to begin with was? Of course not! Likewise you shouldn’t include so much in your photograph that your audience looses track of your main object. On his website, ethanMeleg.com, Ethan Meleg, one of Canada’s leading photographers, says that every time he takes a picture he reminds himself that “less is more” There are many instances where you can cut things out of you photo. Maybe you take a face shot instead of the whole body. Maybe you just focus on one flower (Bottom) instead of a whole field (top).