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13. Here's something that will improve your photography.

Mon Jun 3, 2013, 01:48 PM

Jun 2013

Look at how the works are composed. Look at how they use the most important of all numbers, the number three.

https://www.google.com/search?q=classical+painters&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Hc2sUe3xJKi30gG984CwCQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1400&bih=779

The "rule of thirds" can mean the grid used for composition, it can also mean the triangle or the grouping of three elements in the image. The Mona Lisa is a triangle, and so it Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother." The eyes, nose and mouth describe a triangle, and that might be why our eyes are attracted to triangles.

No matter how good the other photographers are in this group, they were once novices, and probably still think their photos suck.

http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds

Look at their tips: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/

Learning the use of light is more difficult, but I look to the cinema for inspiration.

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What camera? [View all] nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 OP

Thanks for sharing libodem Jun 2013 #1

I will likely post a few I have taken, and posted, on the twitter nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #2

Very cool libodem Jun 2013 #3

I carry my point and shoot every where. nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #4

I looked through an old suit case libodem Jun 2013 #7

Pretty flowers nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #18

Thank you libodem Jun 2013 #20

I finally located mom's old press passes libodem Jun 2013 #21

Those are cool nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #23

Here's something that will improve your photography. alfredo Jun 2013 #13

Thank you libodem Jun 2013 #15

Good, and don't feel shy about posting on this forum. alfredo Jun 2013 #17

There is an Iphone ad out there kentauros Jun 2013 #5

I know and it does not equal it nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #6

I don't own any iProducts, kentauros Jun 2013 #8

i use the kit lens nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #10

Have you ever tried the Gorilla-Pod? kentauros Jun 2013 #11

I have considered it, admitedly nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #16

Hopefully, that is what the phone-camera user will want to do. kentauros Jun 2013 #22

Hubby still has his tank...eeeerrrr Pentax 1000 nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #27

Mine stopped working a while back. kentauros Jun 2013 #29

Film is mostly gone nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #30

I use my wrist-strap all the time, too. kentauros Jun 2013 #12

Yes, buy local. My wrist strap had no way to tighten so I made a alfredo Jun 2013 #14

I've posted this before Stevenmarc Jun 2013 #24

Ah, the photographer nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #25

the main reason i bought a d600 instead of the d800 rdking647 Jun 2013 #26

If I know I'm doing a serious shoot... Cassandra Jun 2013 #31