Bruce the Chef

By: Tom Ambrozewicz

It’s true-you can make a beautiful scrapbook with less than perfect
pictures. However, if you learn to make the most of your photography,
you will find that you spend less time working on embellishing a page
because the pictures will speak for themselves. Digital cameras make it
easy to delete blurry or otherwise bad shots, but you may not get the
second chance to capture your infant’s precious smile or your pet’s
latest antic. Be armed with your camera at all times, and keep a few
tried and true rules in your head to take shots that will stun.

This is the most talked about photography technique, and once the
mystery is taken away, you will find that it is also one of the
simplest ways to separate good shots from breath-taking ones. The
initial concept is simple. Imagine you have drawn a tic-tac-toe board
in the frame. Therefore, you have two lines running vertically and two
lines running horizontally, intersecting at four points. Your initial
urge is probably to center an image-and this sometimes proves to be the
best option-but the four points of intersection are what professional
photographers refer to as "sweet spots." Our eyes are naturally drawn
to these places on a page, so when the main points of a subject matter,
such as your cat’s face, fall on one of these spots, the picture looks
more appealing and balanced. If you cannot capture this perfectly, you
can always crop your photograph when you scrapbook to help your picture
adhere to the rule of thirds. Remember that you don’t always have to
stick to this rule, but it may help you find your shot.

The rule of thirds is not the only composition trick that photographers
use to create beautiful photographs. A lot has to do with subject
matter. Every picture has a background and foreground, but if you cut
most of that out and fill the frame with your subject matter you will
usually have a much better picture. Also, look at the lines in a
picture. This is especially helpful with a landscape shot, because by
placing the horizon on one of the lines you created with the rule of
thirds, you will have a much more effective shot. Diagonal lines should
be used to create interest. For example, railway tracks cutting across
the frame and leading your eye through the sweet spots will give you a
better shot.

Lastly look at color. This is important even in black and white
photographs. Make sure that the light and dark colors are balanced. By
doing this when you take the picture, you will be able to create better
pages that are coordinated to match your photographs, and by following
the other tips your will be able to create better pages in general.

About the Author:

Tom Ambrozewicz is one of the pioneers in using breakthrough audio technology on his web sites. You can read, you can listen to professional narrator reading to you or having MP3 files ready to download if you hate to keep printed files. You can check all scrapbooking tips at Ask-How.info now.

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