Tips, rules for interesting and good nature and still shots?

[blackrose89]

I like still life and nature photos. So I'm wondering what to look for composition-wise in these two types of elements to make them interesting and good photos? If I go to the park and beach to take some pictures, what are some goals, rules and tips I should set for myself? Same question for still life, If I wanted to make a photograph out of say, jewelry, what should I keep in mind?

 

[BlackSheep]

I think that your question is a bit too broad for anyone to be able to give you tips; even taking just one scenario (i.e. going to the beach), there's so many different subjects that it's tough to know what to tell you.

One thing I do suggest - go to the library and/or your local bookstore, and take a look at the books - there are many good general books about both nature photography and still life work - you can get an overall idea of tips/rules, etc from the books, and then go from there. Have fun

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Let me google that for you <---I was about to post that but uhmmm maybe click it anyway

 

[dxqcanada5]

Landscape/Nature and Studio/Product photography are sooooo different that they cannot be put into the same sentence.

If you want to read information on either ... there has been a lot of literature produced on both of these types of photography.
It is difficult to sum this information up in one or two posts.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Study composition. It works for EVERYTHING.

 

[dots]

Google it.

 

[photo guy]

As far as nature / wildlife goes: try some zoom in shots and also some off center shots but do it when you are not fighting the sun like I was last week when I did some

As far as still like jewelry: be careful of the flash so it doesn't lighten up the items too much upon shooting do an off angle shot so the flash is not direct as to not be too much

 

[WesternGuy]

As Bitter Jeweler said - work on composition...things like the rule of thirds work, regardless what you are shooting. If you Google these subjects on the web, you will get more hits than you could read in a week. I will simply echo what others have said, these subjects are so broad and diverse in terms of subjects and techniques, that it is difficult for me to say "go to this web site" or "read this book" and you will have all the answers, or at least some of them. For example, I have over a dozen books on my shelf covering some aspect of nature photography and I am still learning. For example, here is a link to a series of web articles on Composition - Advanced Composition -- Part I. Links to the following articles. Parts 2 and 3 are found at the end of each section. This site is only one of millions...I did a Google search on "photography landscape composition" and got over 4 million hits...go for it and have fun! When you have a few images that you would to gather comments on, post to this forum and you can be sure that you will get some response. :thumbup:

Cheers,

WesternGuy