Four Tips for Improving Your Photo Composition | Whitney Beth Photography | Ut Photographer
 

Regardless of what you’re shooting with, these quick tips will help improve your photography! 

• Don’t cut off feet
  • When taking a full body shot, be it a group photo or single portrait, make sure to not cut off the feet! In fact, a good rule of them is to leave at least an inch worth of space below the picture (when viewing it - not an inch in real life.) This not only saves your subjects’ feet, but it grounds the image and gives your photograph balance.

• Watch your horizon line
  • This is one of my pet peeves haha! I’ll be the first to admit I don’t shoot level 100% of the time, but fixing your horizon lines is one of the easiest things to do in post. Even the editing software on your cell phones can fix this in two seconds - if you have an iPhone it even does it automatically for you when you go into the crop and rotate feature!

• Get close
  • One of my favorite quotes in photography is from Robert Capa, he said, “If your photos are good enough, you’re not close enough.” I’ve always interpreted it in two ways; the first, get closer to your subject. Fill the screen so that you can clearly see all the details. The second, get close to them personally, get to know them and be more involved emotionally with them. By being close, we can better tell their story. 

• Change your perspective 
  • When photographing kids and animals, I love to get low and get on their level. Changing your perspective helps create an interesting dynamic in the image since it’s something that we don’t normally see. 

Thanks for reading! I hope you found these tips helpful! Let me know if you end up implementing them when you take a picture!