Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Tip #8: Keeping It in Perspective

Photographs by their nature are flat. As a photographer your goal is to add depth and interest to a flat medium. You do that with light, shadow, color, and interesting angles.

Light areas come to the foreground and shadows seem to recede. Reds move forward and blues recede. Finally, good diagonal lines add additional depth to your images. My example, using diagonals, is a field of flowers:




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