Bitter Jeweler
Been spending a lot of time on here!
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2009
- Messages
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- Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos OK to edit
Your expressions and moments can still be well composed. As you get better at it, it will become instinctive.
That babies won't sit still for poses is meaningless. YOU are in control of the camera, you have to think fast and react.
Like in number two. You should have seen that her legs were chopped, and you should have zoomed out or moved back.
If your goal is nice portraits, even candid, you need to study and practice composition, until it is second nature.
To me, and I am sure many others, an image like number two, regardless of what wonderful expression she has, is good for the bin, or your scrapbook.
If you can crop in severely to "save" it, you may sacrifice large print quality, but wind up with a nicer image in the end.
"I am more into capturing expressions and moments" reads as an excuse to make what you have acceptable, if only to yourself.
Learn. Grow. No excuses.
Theories of composition and understanding the elements of visual communication and design are much more complex than many here are willing to admit.
That babies won't sit still for poses is meaningless. YOU are in control of the camera, you have to think fast and react.
Like in number two. You should have seen that her legs were chopped, and you should have zoomed out or moved back.
If your goal is nice portraits, even candid, you need to study and practice composition, until it is second nature.
To me, and I am sure many others, an image like number two, regardless of what wonderful expression she has, is good for the bin, or your scrapbook.
If you can crop in severely to "save" it, you may sacrifice large print quality, but wind up with a nicer image in the end.
"I am more into capturing expressions and moments" reads as an excuse to make what you have acceptable, if only to yourself.
Learn. Grow. No excuses.
Theories of composition and understanding the elements of visual communication and design are much more complex than many here are willing to admit.