Mastering Photography As An Engaging Format

December 5, 2009 freebee Comments off

One of the reasons why photography has become such a great hobby for many people is that photography is very casual. Most people are used to taking pictures without having to learn the mechanics, and the result is instant. It’s easy to blame the equipment as modern cameras have become very sophisticated indeed in automatic mode.

Regardless, there is no photography without such equipment so it does not make sense to be dismissive about it.

The wedding photographer is a good example of bad learning habits , there are many who are fairly self-confident but who deliver images that have no artistic merit to them – they are simply just snaps. A lot of photographers enjoy twiddling their dials and pressing buttons but fail to appreciate the theory.

Driven by clients who demand more and more pictures, many wedding photographers have become snap happy and have a very itchy finger when it comes to what they photograph. Such intuitive photography results in delivering an immediately good or bad picture, but rarely with any understanding why. Photographers whodedicate time to understanding composition they can evolve as artistic individuals and gain an advantage.

As a photographer, it’s important to realise that what remains important is the image itself and why you take it in the first place.

Because so much ‘magic’ can be achieved in digital post-production thanks to amazing software, there is tendency – even a habit – to approach photography with the attitude that you will fix it later in software. In fact, the opposite should be true because so much can be achieved with the composition in the first place, that more consideration needs to be given at the point the shutter clicks.

In photography there are principles in how you arrange the elements seen through your camera. Of course, these are not hard rules, but guidelines that deliver interesting photography in the same manner as great artists master. While you might argue that only a trained eye will see ‘art’ in photography, the human brain interprets visuals in a certain order and this can be used to emphasis the ‘story’ of every image.

With photography, unlike advertising, getting information across to the viewer slowly is rewarding. There are many compositional elements that can be employed to make a picture more interesting and ‘time-consuming’. You may be familiar with the use of curves and diagonal lines to lead the eye, and their relationship with straight lines and where they intersect each other. Triangles are also helpful shapes to find in a composition regularly. Circles lead the eye inward and rectangles assist in dividing a frame. Complementary to this catalog, the photographer can employ motion, perspective, focus, colour, texture and pattern, and delving deeper you can use scale, shadows, reflections, motion and exposure to tell a story.

The point is, whatever your style of photography there are compositional elements that the human brain appreciates. Learning to apply such approaches in your repertoire will help you create memorable and engaging photography.
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