How to Compose Shots When Shooting the Interiors of Homes
This great video lesson by San Francisco-based interior photographer Scott Hargis teaching how to compose shots when photographing the interiors of homes. Stepping into the scene itself like Hargis...
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Analyzing “The Catch” Using the Golden Ratio and Rule of Thirds
“The Catch” is one of the most famous plays in American football history, and Walter Iooss Jr.’s photograph of Dwight Clark leaping into the air is one of the game’s iconic images. Paul Lukas of Uni...
View ArticleHow to Compose Shots When Shooting Skateboarders
Here’s a tutorial by skateboarding photographer Michael Burnett in which he discusses various composition tips and techniques. His area of expertise is in shooting skateboarders, but the tips are very...
View ArticleHow to Crush the Composition
Here’s a talk Photoshop guru Scott Kelby gave at the recent Google+ Photography Conference on how to “crush the composition”. It’s a talk that goes beyond the basics of rules of thirds, leading lines,...
View ArticleBeyond The Rule of Thirds: Advanced Composition With David Brommer
In this B&H Event Space seminar, David Brommer takes you “Beyond The Rule of Thirds” by discussing many different aspects of photographic composition. The entire seminar will take about two hours...
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This Bookmarklet Overlays Rule of Thirds Gridlines to Photos in Your Browser
Want to see whether or not your favorite photographers are following the rule of thirds when composing their shots? Programmer and photography enthusiast Alex Dergachev has created a simple browser...
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A Study of Light, Shadows, and Framing: Street Photos by Ray Metzker
American photographer Ray K. Metzker has had a long and distinguished career in photography, and is well known for his cityscape and landscape images. Many of his street photographs exhibit what Henri...
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An Introduction to Aspect Ratios and Compositional Theory
Here’s a primer for beginning photographers on the concepts of aspect ratios and compositional theories. Aspect ratio is photo’s width/image height, with the long dimension first. There are six common...
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The Great Compositions of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
Has someone ever asked you why you like an image? Beneath the surface of great picture, there is a geometric design in hiding. During World War II, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt worked for the early...
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Learn Composition from the Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Update: The Foundation of Henri Cartier-Bresson has asked that this article be taken down. Apologies. “Do you see it?” This question is a photographic mantra. Myron Barnstone, my mentor, repeats this...
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Parents Unhappy About Where Their Son Was Placed in His Class Photograph
School portraits don’t often make the news for causing controversy, but that’s exactly what the class photo above has been doing over in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Parents of the boy...
View ArticleHow to Compose Shots When Shooting the Interiors of Homes
Categories: TutorialsTags: composecompositionhomehomeshowtointeriorlessonscotthargisvideolessonThis great video lesson by San Francisco-based interior photographer Scott Hargis teaching how to compose...
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Fascinating Video Explores Director Wes Anderson’s Masterful Use of Symmetry
A new video celebrating the composition style of director Wes Anderson is currently making the rounds on the Internet: a beautiful ode to the power of symmetry and Anderson’s ability to use it better...
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A Concise Video Refresher of the Basic Rules of Composition
Composition and the rules that accompany it are some of the most basic aspects you learn when first picking up a camera. If you’ve been a photographer long, it’s probably safe to say that the “rule of...
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GIF Shows Just How Much Composition Can Go Into a Single Advert
We all know how much time and effort is put into photo compositions, but the process by which the above image was created is even more mind-blowing when it’s compiled into the GIF you see below....
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Simple Photoshop Script Imports Multiple Images as Layers in a Single Document
No matter how many hours you spend in Photoshop each day, it’s inevitable there’s a feature or utility within the app you’re yet to use or are completely unaware of. Such was the case for this neat...
View ArticleUseful Two-Part Beginner Tutorial Will Help You Understand the Basics of...
Post-processing and lighting and camera tutorials are all good and well, but none of them are going to do anything for you if you don’t have a good handle on composition. To that end, this basic...
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Presentation Offers Solid Composition Tips and Examples for Street Photographers
Erik Kim is one of the best-known street photographers out there, today. In his continues efforts to shoot and share, Kim has put out the full presentation he used in his Introduction to Composition...
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Night and Day Blend Together in Beautiful Time-Slice Photos of Iconic...
Birds Nest, Beijing, China Richard Silver is a name that’s popped up before here on PetaPixel. Just over a year ago we shared his ‘time-slice’ photo collages that blended together day and night in the...
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Skymetric: Colorful Minimalist Compositions Juxtapose Architecture and Sky
What happens when you give a graphic designer a camera? Well, in the case of Lino Russo and his latest project Skymetric, you get a eye-catching series of images that explore the relationship between...
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