Creating a sense of scale in your landscape photography will bring the image to life and can have a huge effect on how your audience will perceive and interpret the meaning of the shot. Incorporating elements and techniques that help your viewers to measure themselves in relation to the image increases engagement and the impact…
What You Need To Know About Minimalism In Landscape Photography
Minimalist photography is a highly effective, and often emotive, way of representing the world that we live in. It focuses on simplifying the composition of the image in order to focus the viewer’s attention on the fewest number of subjects as possible in one frame. Photographic minimalism originally evolved out of the 1950s avant garde…
Why Is Pre-visualization Important In Photography?
Pre-visualization, or Previz for short, is a fundamental technique that is used by photographers everywhere to help them improve the final results of their work. Pre-visualization is the act of imagining, or ‘seeing’ the finished photo before the shot is even taken. This takes practice and mental focus but as you become better at the…
Why Is “Leading The Eye” Important To Photography?
Leading the Eye in photography and art in general, is the art of drawing the viewer’s attention from one area of an image to another. This can be done to achieve many different effects and can really bring the photo to life before your eyes! Why is Leading the Eye Important? Leading the eye of…
How To Achieve Simplicity in Your Photography
You’ve heard it said a thousand times, that sometimes ‘less is more’, but never is it truer than in the world of photography. In photography it is often the case that simplicity and exactness can be the key compositional elements that make an image stand out from the rest. Simplicity in photography does not refer…
Reasons Why Rule Of Space Is Important To Photography
The Rule of Space is a subtle compositional technique that uses negative space in a photo to lead the eye of the viewer around the image, create pathos or present a narrative within your work. The Rule of Space has similarities to the Rule of Thirds, however, it focuses on the empty or ‘negative’ space…