Thanks so much Vincent! After making this I found that I don’t have many images with shapes, so I’m going to make a conscious effort ... and I might even set myself a project to find shapes wherever I am shooting. Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 👍
Sir, you're the first person who has explained everything simple to me. You definitely deserve millions of subscribers, I appreciate your channel a lot and wish to learn more here.
Thanks so much Alex, your message really inspires me to make more tutorials. It’s great to hear that they are helping. Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
A great summary vin a nutshell, loads of info laid out clearly, cheers Mike, over the last year I've been trying to work on my composition.... A work in progress
Thanks very much! It's the one thing that will start to define you as a photographer and give you a certain look and style. Sometimes it's easy to find a good composition and other times it's pretty tricky. Great to hear you are working on your comps. 😁👍
I bought so many lenses on my previous system and didn't use them, so now I've challenged myself to buy only the 35mm. And the thoughts “oh, i need a zoom” also visit me, but I try to fight them and look for photos using only one lens. That's kinda hard :) But it's helpful in finding best composition by your eyes)
I’m not going to stop anytime soon!! Got lots more planned and and in the next few weeks I’ll be going live if I can figure out how to use the program!! 😁 Thanks for watching. 👍
I know what you mean...the other ones are where you take loads of shots and either you see the composition in one of your other shots...or know where you should have been standing...or your wife takes a better shot with her iPhone...I've had that happen before...😆🤦🏻♂️
This was a really great and useful video, Mike. When I first started taking photos, I was taking care of composition in post-processing, causing me to crop heavily and not have as much detail to work with. Once I started thinking about composition in camera and implementing many tips and tricks that you have taught, I have found myself with images that do not need as much cropping and maintain the larger sizes for the times that I want to print. Thanks for all that you do, brother.
Thanks so much Stephen. And you’ve just described the learning arc of this subject perfectly. You start by taking photos, then seeing the compositions afterwards and cropping and then starting to implement these tactics when taking the photographs. 😁👍 Thanks so much for watching and commenting dude, as always much appreciated. 👌
Thanks so much Lance! I’m the same, I was looking through my photos and was struggling to find any shapes examples...being aware of it is definitely the first step. 👍
Thanks Mike, Another welcome video from you. BTW, you do have a pleasing/comforting voice for these YT videos. Any specific reason you excluded Golden Spiral? Also, those were some excellent image examples for showing the concepts. Good job, those really help in understanding the concept. It's good to see your subscriber base growing too! Congrats's.
Thanks so much Steve, I'm not a huge fan of the golden spiral...it seems to be a fancy way of following the rule of thirds...I've only ever seen one or two photos successfully utilising the golden spiral in its true form...and most videos I've seen on it are just describing the rule of thirds or putting the spiral over images that it doesn't seem to fit that well...maybe I should make a video on this in the future...🤔 I'm glad my images could help with each concept...I definitely need to work on incorporating or finding shapes in more of my images...it took a while to find the examples for that one! 😆 ...and you're right, the subs count is steadily creeping up...I've got lots more planned as well...I'm just learning how to live steam so that will definitely be coming soon as well as some other things you might be interested in! Thanks for watching 😁👍
👍 Good refresher, Mike! A useful compositional skill is frame “edge patrol”. When concentrating on a subject in a frame, I used to tend to overlook distracting elements around the borders. When unavoidable, cropping, or selective blurring in post can make things right - but not always. With practice I’ve learned to eye the whole frame for composition distractions - another take on working the scene to get the best composition. By now you must have 20k subs - congrats.🥇🥁 I like the segment divider images, but the film reel in the lower left corner seems out of place when you are not discussing video. Perhaps a digital camera icon would be a better content match.
Thanks so much Paul! Edge patrol is a really good thing to do. That is another thing I do subconsciously. It's a great habit to build where you look around the edges and background of your frame just before taking the shot as it is so easy to miss things!! 13 subs away from 20k...😁👍 The idea behind the film reel is that it is part of my logo so I'm just trying it out in different places so thanks for the feedback, it's good to know what people think. Those title pages took a while to render in photoshop 3d...although I think the text looks pretty cool I'm not sure I'll do them again as it took up most of the day! 😆👍
You’re so right Ravi! It’s the one skill that you can keep developing for years...I’m still working on it and in making this video it’s reminded me that I need to work on looking for shapes where I’m shooting. Thanks my friend 😁👍
Haha!! You got me on that one...although for videography I prefer to use the rule of thirds and have the person looking off camera when they’re being interviewed or answering questions asked by an off camera interviewer...and then smack bang in the middle, talking to camera when they’re talking to the viewer directly...😁👍
If one wished to place the most interesting point at an intersection then use the real rule, Phi Grid, since the original ROT didn't mention anything about the intersections. The ROT is about thirds such as the shoreline places along the bottom horizontal line and the horizon at the top one. Then, there is Figure ground relationship (it can be light/shadow, sharpness, contrast, etc.).
Thanks for your input and high levels of wisdom BFS; the rule of thirds is a simplified way that most people can understand easily and this is aimed at beginners. I’ve seen so many videos on the golden ratio where people place the concentric swirl over random images trying to make it fit...badly...that most beginners would get confused and would probably not completely understand it. You’re right, the original rule of thirds doesn’t mention intersections, but it has evolved over the years and intersections have been used more and more on cinema as well as photography that they can and are used.
The main 4 rules of framing and composition are: 1) the rule of thirds; 2 )the rule of odds; 3) the rule of space; 4) the rule of viewpoint. Some cameras have only 4x4 grid, some have useful 3x3 grid. Zoom lenses are better at chosing your framing and viewpoint, prime lenses get what you can get at the distance and later you need to crop to the frame to get your final composition.
Thanks so much!! I've been working on processing my audio files recently!! I have a rode NTG3 shotgun mic just above me, going into a juiced link preamp (don't think this company is around any more) and then straight into my a7iii with the levels turned down to 1. I've just started using adobe audition to process the files where I normalise, compress, equalise and normalise again...I learned this off Nathaniel at Tutvids: th-cam.com/video/uHDuhRRyyOc/w-d-xo.html&t I hope that helps!! 😁👍
Great stuff, Mike. I need reminders. I confess, some of my best composition happens after the fact with my Photoshop wickedness and sin. 😈 I try to get it in-camera, but often, while reviewing images, I end up thinking, "Doh! I should have ______." Thankfully, in my faith of photo Pharisees, I've learned a convenient rationale for my sinfulness - the useful euphemism: "compositing" 👼👼👼👼👼
Haha!! I think we're all guilty of that at times! 😆 I used to do so much compositional work in photoshop but a little less now...although when I haven't been shooting in a while...it does creep back in. Haha!!! Compositing is definitely a skill worth learning! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography agreed. It definitely has its place. Been doing graphic art for ages, so compositing and other Photoshop trickery comes naturally for me. I think I use it as too much of a crutch, though, as I become more serious about photography. I need to practice nailing the composition in camera!
Thanks so much!! I’m glad it’s helping. Is there anything else you’d like to learn that I haven’t covered yet? If you have any ideas please do let me know. 👍
That's an excellent list!! 😁👍 I've also got some lists on my website in alphabetical order and broken up into genres: www.boxheadmike.com/youtubelinks/ so that might help you as well! 👍 THat's a great idea about ct gels...I have a pack of them so I'll add that one to the list! 😁
Thanks a lot! Must become conscious about these things, for then to make them a part of my subconsciousness. Too often my first image is the best, and then I start thinking too much, making the rest of the images of the scene too rigid. Anyway, I've become more conscious about shooting at a low aperture, to put focus on the main element and blur out the rest, like this image I made this morning, where the main object is the trees in the background, blurring out the grass in the foreground. Too it has three elements, grass, meadow and trees: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gardskoronaen_i_Grythengen_27-09-19.jpg
Thanks Oyvind, it does take a lot of practice to get these into your subconscious...I'm ok with most of them but after making this video, I know I need to incorporate more shapes into my images! THat's a good way to isolate your subject, by opening up the aperture and making other parts of the image blurry compared to the part you want the viewer to focus on. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography By the way, I just found out that Keystone in C1 can be adjusted with sliders as well, to adjust geometry. I only used free hand and found it quite difficult, so when the geometry was of I opened the file in Lr CC. But with this discovery I do now plan to get rid of Adobe products completely! The only things missing in C1 now is bracketing and panoramas. But I hear new Luminar IV is fantastic, and guess these things can be done there.
That's cool...and its funny you should mention captureONE, I've been looking at that today to help with tethering. I may even do a few tutorials on it once I've learned the program. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography My next step will be Affinity. I thought about Luminar IV, but got this answer from Capture One: "I would say if you are a Capture One user Affinity makes more sense as a complimentary product. " So it seems like there's a cooperation between Affinity and C1, like with Sony and C1. Here's my first image using Keystone sliders, and it works just as well as Lr Mobile: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land%C3%A5sbygda_og_Land%C3%A5svannet_en_h%C3%B8stdag_29-09-19.jpg I too found out how to use Nik Collection with C1 last week. So it seems like my workflow will end up as follows: Sony Alpa + Capture One + Nik Collection + Affinity Photo. What do you think about this combination?
Hi Mike, I mostly think about the rules you mentioned (not so much colours so far....) and also at the overall balance of the image. I have a little problem with wildlife, especially a single animal, because often I don’t feel like putting it in the centre but neither at the thirds interceptions, so it ends up slight off centre, like in this photo flic.kr/p/2gwkxKN (a very heavy crop, by the way....) Do you think it looks awkward?
Hi Paolo, That's great that you think about these already...I need to work on incorporating more shapes in my images...in a way you have to decide which of these elements you use...most of the time it's a combination of different ones...it is one of the biggest things to learn in photography though. With your squirrel image, I'd push him ever so slightly to the right so he has some looking room, it feels like he's pushed up against the left side slightly...but that's my personal preference. I'd also get lower...to his eye level...but that might scare him away! 😆 Photographing single animals is tricky to shoot as for one it can be a fleeting moment. What I tend to do is shoot as many different positions in the frame as possible so I have time to work out what looks best afterwards...either that or shoot wider and crop. I hope that helps! 😁👍
Thanks Mike for reviewing this image, good idea the one to get lower, thinking back to that moment I could have done that...but I did take several shots and this was the one I selected.....
@Paolo La Rocca There is nothing wrong with placing it in the center (see David Yarrow's work), except modern photographers tend to find it too traditional. To place it off center, you need to understand positive & negative spaces. To appreciate composition, try viewing some of the iconic photos from Master Photographer Fan Ho.
BFS I did say in the video that you can have it dead center but in knowing this rule, and learning how it works, you can make an informed decision as to where you’re going to put your subject in your frame. Thanks for your input. 👍
great video for me since i just got my Canon77d and the tokina 11-16mm , its the greatest lens but its doing a better job then my smartphone and i really enjoyed the tutorial , always learning something new in your videos
Thanks so much Moe! That’s definitely a great combo, I remember having the tokina when I used to shoot with canon cameras...loved that lens...and with the wide aperture, it’s great for astrophotography as well! 😁👍 How are you finding the 77D?
@@mikesphotography my pleasure and thank you for your support on my instagram page as well , its the same name , its a great combo and i am really enjoying the 77D and i am trying to invest my time in learning and experimenting from what i learn on youtube especially your channel, the wide aperture really helped in dark places when i shoot the milkyway
Thats awesome!! ...and that's the best way to do it...watching videos here is the first step...and getting out and doing it for yourself and putting those skills you've learned in to practice is the best way to get better!! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography of course , i learned from youtube a lot before having a camera and then i had to put my skills or what i learned to the test and i learn something new everyday
Excellent!! And TH-cam is great for all kinds of different things to learn!! I just learned how to increase the quality of the audio in my videos recently and I couldn't have done it without youtube! 😁👍
Thanks so much Sherif! I’ve seen your photos and you’re a natural!! Some of your compositions are fantastic!!! It definitely is a part of photography that we all have to constantly work on. 😁👍
Mike Smith it is the most challenging element of landscape photography. I am about to give up all the rules especially those that restrict me from taking pictures. 😩😩😩
Haha! Indeed!! it is slowly cooling down now...I've just had surgery on my shoulder so I'm in recovery mode at the moment but a visit to the coffee shop over the next two weeks would be great! 😁👍
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Broo you are just the best explaining what composition is and how to use it. You explain things like you are talking to a 5 years old child.
Haha!! Well if a 5 year old can understand it, then my job here is done! 😆
Thanks for watching! 😁👍
Good reminder. Thanks Mike
Thanks so much Vincent!
After making this I found that I don’t have many images with shapes, so I’m going to make a conscious effort ... and I might even set myself a project to find shapes wherever I am shooting.
Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 👍
Sir, you're the first person who has explained everything simple to me. You definitely deserve millions of subscribers, I appreciate your channel a lot and wish to learn more here.
Thanks so much Alex, your message really inspires me to make more tutorials. It’s great to hear that they are helping.
Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
Great vid Mike you will soon be at a well deserved 20k
Interesting about awkward objects you are drawn to, i'm always drawn to the T :0
Thanks so much dude! 😁👍
A great summary vin a nutshell, loads of info laid out clearly, cheers Mike, over the last year I've been trying to work on my composition.... A work in progress
Thanks very much! It's the one thing that will start to define you as a photographer and give you a certain look and style. Sometimes it's easy to find a good composition and other times it's pretty tricky.
Great to hear you are working on your comps. 😁👍
I bought so many lenses on my previous system and didn't use them, so now I've challenged myself to buy only the 35mm. And the thoughts “oh, i need a zoom” also visit me, but I try to fight them and look for photos using only one lens. That's kinda hard :) But it's helpful in finding best composition by your eyes)
Please don’t stop posting videos I learn a lot Thank you so much
I’m not going to stop anytime soon!! Got lots more planned and and in the next few weeks I’ll be going live if I can figure out how to use the program!! 😁
Thanks for watching. 👍
My new composition technique:
Watch this video before shooting
Haha!! That sounds like a great technique!!! 😁
Thanks for watching dude! 👍
@@mikesphotography honestly I always struggle with finding a good composition. It could be staring right at me but I dont know how to frame it
I know what you mean...the other ones are where you take loads of shots and either you see the composition in one of your other shots...or know where you should have been standing...or your wife takes a better shot with her iPhone...I've had that happen before...😆🤦🏻♂️
This was a really great and useful video, Mike. When I first started taking photos, I was taking care of composition in post-processing, causing me to crop heavily and not have as much detail to work with. Once I started thinking about composition in camera and implementing many tips and tricks that you have taught, I have found myself with images that do not need as much cropping and maintain the larger sizes for the times that I want to print. Thanks for all that you do, brother.
Thanks so much Stephen.
And you’ve just described the learning arc of this subject perfectly. You start by taking photos, then seeing the compositions afterwards and cropping and then starting to implement these tactics when taking the photographs. 😁👍
Thanks so much for watching and commenting dude, as always much appreciated. 👌
Great video! I love the way you talk and explain everything so throughly.
Thanks so much Ana! 😁👍
You can buy a lens composition viewer which gives the angle of view of different lenses
Most definitely Clive. They are a real help ...
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Great initial explanation of composition. Well done! Cheers, Keith
Thanks very much Keith! 😁👍
That mountain at 8:58 looks like it has a path along the side of it. Just wondered if that is where the hiker is heading to!
Yes, that's definitely where they were headed!
Thanks for watching Clive. 👍
Good to remind. And so well explained. Thank you Mike.
#20kisnear
Thanks so much David!
Haha!! I like the hashtag...it's getting close!! 😁👍
Great set of rules to help develop the way you can view something. I am going to have to use the shapes idea more I think. As always thank you.
Thanks so much Lance!
I’m the same, I was looking through my photos and was struggling to find any shapes examples...being aware of it is definitely the first step. 👍
Excellent topic. Thanx Mike
And thank you for watching Charalampos! 😁👍
As a novice photographer that’s learning the basics I cherish and thank you for this video, Mike! Also: nice Foo Fighters t-shirt!
Thanks so much Nazir!! I’m glad it has helped!
Haha!! I usually have these foos T-shirt’s on for my tutorials!!
Thanks 😁👍
Good video Mike. Keep up the good work!
Thanks very much!
Thanks Mike, Another welcome video from you. BTW, you do have a pleasing/comforting voice for these YT videos.
Any specific reason you excluded Golden Spiral?
Also, those were some excellent image examples for showing the concepts. Good job, those really help in understanding the concept.
It's good to see your subscriber base growing too! Congrats's.
Thanks so much Steve,
I'm not a huge fan of the golden spiral...it seems to be a fancy way of following the rule of thirds...I've only ever seen one or two photos successfully utilising the golden spiral in its true form...and most videos I've seen on it are just describing the rule of thirds or putting the spiral over images that it doesn't seem to fit that well...maybe I should make a video on this in the future...🤔
I'm glad my images could help with each concept...I definitely need to work on incorporating or finding shapes in more of my images...it took a while to find the examples for that one! 😆
...and you're right, the subs count is steadily creeping up...I've got lots more planned as well...I'm just learning how to live steam so that will definitely be coming soon as well as some other things you might be interested in!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
👍 Good refresher, Mike! A useful compositional skill is frame “edge patrol”. When concentrating on a subject in a frame, I used to tend to overlook distracting elements around the borders. When unavoidable, cropping, or selective blurring in post can make things right - but not always. With practice I’ve learned to eye the whole frame for composition distractions - another take on working the scene to get the best composition.
By now you must have 20k subs - congrats.🥇🥁
I like the segment divider images, but the film reel in the lower left corner seems out of place when you are not discussing video. Perhaps a digital camera icon would be a better content match.
Thanks so much Paul!
Edge patrol is a really good thing to do. That is another thing I do subconsciously. It's a great habit to build where you look around the edges and background of your frame just before taking the shot as it is so easy to miss things!!
13 subs away from 20k...😁👍
The idea behind the film reel is that it is part of my logo so I'm just trying it out in different places so thanks for the feedback, it's good to know what people think. Those title pages took a while to render in photoshop 3d...although I think the text looks pretty cool I'm not sure I'll do them again as it took up most of the day! 😆👍
Some of the most helpful and straightforward content the internet is offering. Keep it up Mike!
Thanks so much Ben, I really appreciate your kind words!! 👍
Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁
Much valuable and needed tips. Without great composition, the image looks very dull. Great tips. Thank you.
You’re so right Ravi! It’s the one skill that you can keep developing for years...I’m still working on it and in making this video it’s reminded me that I need to work on looking for shapes where I’m shooting.
Thanks my friend 😁👍
You should put your face according to the rule of thirds in your videos ;)
Haha!! You got me on that one...although for videography I prefer to use the rule of thirds and have the person looking off camera when they’re being interviewed or answering questions asked by an off camera interviewer...and then smack bang in the middle, talking to camera when they’re talking to the viewer directly...😁👍
@@mikesphotography Great video anyway. Very straightforward and clear, thanks!
No worries Christian, thanks for watching! 😁👍
Foo!!Fighters!! 😁
Oh yes!! 😁👍
If one wished to place the most interesting point at an intersection then use the real rule, Phi Grid, since the original ROT didn't mention anything about the intersections. The ROT is about thirds such as the shoreline places along the bottom horizontal line and the horizon at the top one. Then, there is Figure ground relationship (it can be light/shadow, sharpness, contrast, etc.).
Thanks for your input and high levels of wisdom BFS; the rule of thirds is a simplified way that most people can understand easily and this is aimed at beginners.
I’ve seen so many videos on the golden ratio where people place the concentric swirl over random images trying to make it fit...badly...that most beginners would get confused and would probably not completely understand it.
You’re right, the original rule of thirds doesn’t mention intersections, but it has evolved over the years and intersections have been used more and more on cinema as well as photography that they can and are used.
The main 4 rules of framing and composition are: 1) the rule of thirds; 2 )the rule of odds; 3) the rule of space; 4) the rule of viewpoint. Some cameras have only 4x4 grid, some have useful 3x3 grid. Zoom lenses are better at chosing your framing and viewpoint, prime lenses get what you can get at the distance and later you need to crop to the frame to get your final composition.
Thanks for your input...they are definitely 4 good Rules to use.
Thanks for watching. 👍
Great vid! Btw, what is your audio setup? It sounds amazing
Thanks so much!! I've been working on processing my audio files recently!!
I have a rode NTG3 shotgun mic just above me, going into a juiced link preamp (don't think this company is around any more) and then straight into my a7iii with the levels turned down to 1.
I've just started using adobe audition to process the files where I normalise, compress, equalise and normalise again...I learned this off Nathaniel at Tutvids: th-cam.com/video/uHDuhRRyyOc/w-d-xo.html&t
I hope that helps!! 😁👍
Great stuff, Mike. I need reminders.
I confess, some of my best composition happens after the fact with my Photoshop wickedness and sin. 😈 I try to get it in-camera, but often, while reviewing images, I end up thinking, "Doh! I should have ______."
Thankfully, in my faith of photo Pharisees, I've learned a convenient rationale for my sinfulness - the useful euphemism: "compositing"
👼👼👼👼👼
Haha!! I think we're all guilty of that at times! 😆
I used to do so much compositional work in photoshop but a little less now...although when I haven't been shooting in a while...it does creep back in.
Haha!!! Compositing is definitely a skill worth learning! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography agreed. It definitely has its place. Been doing graphic art for ages, so compositing and other Photoshop trickery comes naturally for me. I think I use it as too much of a crutch, though, as I become more serious about photography. I need to practice nailing the composition in camera!
This is a great tutorial for us novice photographers, thank you!
Thanks so much!! I’m glad it’s helping.
Is there anything else you’d like to learn that I haven’t covered yet? If you have any ideas please do let me know. 👍
Mike Smith yes please, how to use “CT GELS” with flash. And when to use them.
Thank you for your time!
Mike Smith I’ve created a playlist “photography for beginners “ can you take a look and recommend so that I may have missed?
That's an excellent list!! 😁👍
I've also got some lists on my website in alphabetical order and broken up into genres: www.boxheadmike.com/youtubelinks/ so that might help you as well! 👍
THat's a great idea about ct gels...I have a pack of them so I'll add that one to the list! 😁
Nearing 20k subscribers. Cheers...
Thanks so much Ravi!! Should be in the next few days I think!! 😁👍
Keep up the videos, such helpful content
Thanks so much Matthew! I’m glad they’re helping!! 😁👍
Thanks a lot! Must become conscious about these things, for then to make them a part of my subconsciousness. Too often my first image is the best, and then I start thinking too much, making the rest of the images of the scene too rigid. Anyway, I've become more conscious about shooting at a low aperture, to put focus on the main element and blur out the rest, like this image I made this morning, where the main object is the trees in the background, blurring out the grass in the foreground. Too it has three elements, grass, meadow and trees: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gardskoronaen_i_Grythengen_27-09-19.jpg
Thanks Oyvind, it does take a lot of practice to get these into your subconscious...I'm ok with most of them but after making this video, I know I need to incorporate more shapes into my images!
THat's a good way to isolate your subject, by opening up the aperture and making other parts of the image blurry compared to the part you want the viewer to focus on. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography By the way, I just found out that Keystone in C1 can be adjusted with sliders as well, to adjust geometry. I only used free hand and found it quite difficult, so when the geometry was of I opened the file in Lr CC. But with this discovery I do now plan to get rid of Adobe products completely!
The only things missing in C1 now is bracketing and panoramas. But I hear new Luminar IV is fantastic, and guess these things can be done there.
That's cool...and its funny you should mention captureONE, I've been looking at that today to help with tethering. I may even do a few tutorials on it once I've learned the program.
😁👍
@@mikesphotography My next step will be Affinity. I thought about Luminar IV, but got this answer from Capture One: "I would say if you are a Capture One user Affinity makes more sense as a complimentary product.
" So it seems like there's a cooperation between Affinity and C1, like with Sony and C1.
Here's my first image using Keystone sliders, and it works just as well as Lr Mobile: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land%C3%A5sbygda_og_Land%C3%A5svannet_en_h%C3%B8stdag_29-09-19.jpg
I too found out how to use Nik Collection with C1 last week. So it seems like my workflow will end up as follows: Sony Alpa + Capture One + Nik Collection + Affinity Photo.
What do you think about this combination?
Hi Mike, I mostly think about the rules you mentioned (not so much colours so far....) and also at the overall balance of the image. I have a little problem with wildlife, especially a single animal, because often I don’t feel like putting it in the centre but neither at the thirds interceptions, so it ends up slight off centre, like in this photo flic.kr/p/2gwkxKN (a very heavy crop, by the way....) Do you think it looks awkward?
Hi Paolo,
That's great that you think about these already...I need to work on incorporating more shapes in my images...in a way you have to decide which of these elements you use...most of the time it's a combination of different ones...it is one of the biggest things to learn in photography though.
With your squirrel image, I'd push him ever so slightly to the right so he has some looking room, it feels like he's pushed up against the left side slightly...but that's my personal preference. I'd also get lower...to his eye level...but that might scare him away! 😆 Photographing single animals is tricky to shoot as for one it can be a fleeting moment. What I tend to do is shoot as many different positions in the frame as possible so I have time to work out what looks best afterwards...either that or shoot wider and crop.
I hope that helps! 😁👍
Thanks Mike for reviewing this image, good idea the one to get lower, thinking back to that moment I could have done that...but I did take several shots and this was the one I selected.....
No worries, it's still a great shot though!! 😁👍
@Paolo La Rocca There is nothing wrong with placing it in the center (see David Yarrow's work), except modern photographers tend to find it too traditional. To place it off center, you need to understand positive & negative spaces. To appreciate composition, try viewing some of the iconic photos from Master Photographer Fan Ho.
BFS I did say in the video that you can have it dead center but in knowing this rule, and learning how it works, you can make an informed decision as to where you’re going to put your subject in your frame.
Thanks for your input. 👍
Happy new hair, Mike :)
Haha!! Thank you...I’ve got to keep it tidy whilst it’s still there!! 😆
I like the new intro. :)
Thanks so much!! I’m trying a few different ones to see what works the best. 😁👍
great video for me since i just got my Canon77d and the tokina 11-16mm , its the greatest lens but its doing a better job then my smartphone and i really enjoyed the tutorial , always learning something new in your videos
Thanks so much Moe!
That’s definitely a great combo, I remember having the tokina when I used to shoot with canon cameras...loved that lens...and with the wide aperture, it’s great for astrophotography as well! 😁👍
How are you finding the 77D?
@@mikesphotography my pleasure and thank you for your support on my instagram page as well , its the same name , its a great combo and i am really enjoying the 77D and i am trying to invest my time in learning and experimenting from what i learn on youtube especially your channel, the wide aperture really helped in dark places when i shoot the milkyway
Thats awesome!! ...and that's the best way to do it...watching videos here is the first step...and getting out and doing it for yourself and putting those skills you've learned in to practice is the best way to get better!! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography of course , i learned from youtube a lot before having a camera and then i had to put my skills or what i learned to the test and i learn something new everyday
Excellent!! And TH-cam is great for all kinds of different things to learn!! I just learned how to increase the quality of the audio in my videos recently and I couldn't have done it without youtube! 😁👍
Good one soon to be 20k :)
Thanks so much Vikash! It’s edging closer!! 😁👍
Great video for a topic that i struggle with “always”. 👍👍👍
Thanks so much Sherif!
I’ve seen your photos and you’re a natural!! Some of your compositions are fantastic!!!
It definitely is a part of photography that we all have to constantly work on.
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Mike Smith it is the most challenging element of landscape photography. I am about to give up all the rules especially those that restrict me from taking pictures. 😩😩😩
Those are the worst rules!! 😆
I hope you are well my friend! We need to catch up soon. 👍
Mike Smith yes we should especially it is getting less inferno 🥴🥴🥴
Haha! Indeed!! it is slowly cooling down now...I've just had surgery on my shoulder so I'm in recovery mode at the moment but a visit to the coffee shop over the next two weeks would be great! 😁👍