Monthly Archives: September 2010

Landscape mode is used for a large depth of field. It allows everything in the photo to be left in focus. This is a landscape shot that also expresses balance. All objects in the scene are in focus. The horizontal rods, … Continue reading →

Cropping can be done in photoshop to cut out part of the picture and improve the view. This is the cropped version of the picture seen below. The built in frame is now more obvious and makes for a tighter, neater photograph.

A built in frame is when  the picture has either a natural or placed border that frames your subject. This picture shows this because the rubber cap creates a frame around my friend. This picture has a slanted frame. The diamond … Continue reading →

Leading Lines are the lines in a picture that lead the viewer’s eye to either the subject or through the picture. My picture expresses leading lines because your eyes follow the curve of the building and the lines of the … Continue reading →

The Rule of Thirds is a guidline in photography in which you align the objects of your photo in a certain way. You can use an imaginary graph made up of nine equal boxes to place your objects a third  of the way into the … Continue reading →