{"id":1075,"date":"2010-09-30T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stayfocusedpress.com\/blog\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:39:30","slug":"composition-tip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Composition Tip # 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creative framing is one of the secrets to taking top notch photos.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Composition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Often, the photographer feels compelled to frame the entire subject. But you may find it equally interesting to be more selective about how much of the subject to include in the viewfinder. <b>Suggestion: Move Closer<\/b> I call this zooming with my feet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<center><a href=\".\/images\/composition\/File0039.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1075]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/images\/composition\/File0039s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHere we&#8217;ve included most of the wooden sculpture. You can see that the background is slightly distracting.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<center><a href=\".\/images\/composition\/File0042.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1075]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/images\/composition\/File0042s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nBy moving closer to the sculpture, we have paid special attention to the face and also eliminated the background.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<center><a href=\".\/images\/composition\/IMG_0057.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1075]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/images\/composition\/IMG_0057s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe large number of balloons make for a very colorful scene. However, the balloons don&#8217;t stand out very well because of the building in the background.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<center><a href=\".\/images\/composition\/IMG_0056.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1075]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/images\/composition\/IMG_0056s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nFor this shot, we concentrated on a single balloon. By moving closer to the balloon, we are able to isolate its bright color against the blue sky.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative framing is one of the secrets to taking top notch photos. Composition Often, the photographer feels compelled to frame the entire subject. But you may find it equally interesting to be more selective about how much of the subject to include in the viewfinder. Suggestion: Move Closer I call this zooming with my feet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[606,724,725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}