8 IMPORTANT Composition Tips for Better Photos (Re-upload)
So, you’re looking to improve your photography and you’re (rightfully) told that composition is the key to a great photo. You proceed to read up on compositional rules and you realise there’s a lot to learn. The rule of thirds, the golden spiral, the phi grid, the Fibonacci sequence, leading lines, arabesques and dynamic symmetry. It all looks very complex and confusing.
You examine bodies of work taken by a variety of well-respected photographers, but rarely find any examples that fit with these rules you’ve read about. In fact, most of these images almost read like a list of case studies showing what not to do.
You’re confused and overwhelmed and really don’t know where to start.
The problem is that composition is a massive subject and learning all the grid systems and ratios is only one tool in your visual toolbox. So let me give you 8 simple tips to get you started on improving your composition.
_Amendment:_ The image at 7:42 is by *Edward Burtynsky*
0:00 – Crazy intro
2:00 – Get YOUR Position Right
3:28 – Use Your Phone
5:00 – Beware the Rule of Thirds
6:42 – Blur Your Eyes
7:11 – Think Conceptually
9:00 – Keep it Simple
9:38 – Keep the Edges Clean
10:00 – Work in Post
11:01 – Practise
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- 8 IMPORTANT Composition Tips for Better Photos - April 26, 2024
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24 comments
❌❌❌ RE-UPLOAD ❌❌❌
My original video got taken down because it thought a portrait of clothed children taken in 1992 by Sally Mann "𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚑𝚢𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕-𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚜"
Sorry if you were waiting for my next video. That one is almost finished and should be up very soon. At least this has given me the chance to edit this video a bit and add some new content.
Щиро дякую за вашу роботу і час. Подача супер, багато корисного — чекаю наступні випуски
Essential basics for someone like me who just takes holiday snaps on an iPhone but wants to be better. Thanks Jamie great advice.
If I think my picture looks good it's good. Simpel as that. Fuck te rules. Famous photographers got famous because they did it different.
This was so much great information! Thank you!!! 👍👍
📷arnab_photopedia
I’m honestly speechless, so impressive!
she is sooo cute
Take a picture. Done.
11:00 damn why'd Steve McCurry take out the dude smiling in the rain just to push his sad and struggling message
Estoy practicando la fotografía con mi teléfono, me estoy descubriendo y estoy pensando muy seriamente en comprar una cámara, para aficionado, pero siento que muchas cosas dichas en tu vídeo lo he hecho sin saber nada de la fotografía…me alegra eso
The video title is wrong. I have come back to this video multiple times during my learning journey. So much information, so much gold. Fantastic
Excellent presentation of these concepts and examples that illustrate them.
💯 Perfect explanation
Giáo trình rõ ràng, cập nhật và dễ áp dụng.
Giáo viên truyền cảm hứng học tập rất tốt.
My brain did a happy dance, I swear.
if Vsauce persue photography
It's interesting to me that there is discussion about post-editing as "cheating". If you're job is to deliver the facts only, then sure, send as shot. Otherwise you're making art, and the point of art is to make someone feel, not to accurately capture the 9:05 bus behind a subject. I appreciate you message about letting your personal ethics guide you.
Every photographer does all of this by pure instinct and we're inventing rules that make sense to explain why their photos are so good
This was super helpful, thanks!
I clicked for the composition tips and got… a masterclass in video editing! I have only just started editing and this left me exhausted trying to work out the time and effort that must have gone into the making of this. Thank you (and the composition tips weren’t bad either) 👏👏
Learn all the rules, master the rules, and when that you will learn how to break them all.
I refuse to refer to them as rules anymore, they are all possibilities.