in this video I'm gonna show you how
combining common compositional rules can
help you to create more compelling a
photography now like right now my name
is Pye and I'm one of the founders of
Lynne and Joseph photography and SLR
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welcome to sweater corner okay so here's
the deal we all know common
compositional rules
the most common rule of thirds but we
also have shapes and we have triangles
and diagonals and leading lines and
frames and frames within frames and
light theory color theory
there's tons okay it's difficult to
remember them all and oftentimes it can
be even more difficult to put them into
practice so I have a trick to help you
create more compelling photographs right
now and that is before each time you
press the shutter
aim for every photograph to combine two
or more compositional rules and I want
you to identify them so I'm gonna show
you exactly what I mean let's take a
look at a few images here now for this
first image what I was aiming for was
perfect symmetry while featuring shapes
within the scene so to do this I placed
my couple onto the rock formation and I
crumped it so that rock would kind of
have a triangle shape at the bottom
center of the frame the camera has been
positioned to ensure that the background
Mountain is kind of the larger triangle
that remains perfectly centered but it
sort of frames the entire scene so
already we have kind of these two
triangle shapes both symmetrical both
kind of framing and leading into our
subject and scene next I position the
height of the camera so the road kind of
acted like a diagonal leading line
directly into our subject I felt like if
it was in any other position it just
would have been more distracting but it
was helpful to the composition finally
I'm also using a light to ensure that
our subject is essentially the brightest
point in the frame so we're using a
flash to light them from the left side
to make them the brightest part of the
image
so here we're combining multiple
compositional techniques to create an
image that's compelling and visually
interesting to look at let's look at
another image for this next image I
place my subject the bride in the
brightest part of the composition
directly in front of the window where we
had that nice light kind of coming
through next before I even picked up the
camera I just stood up and kind of
walked around the scene to see if
there's any foreground elements that we
could add interest by creating kind of
depth and shooting through something in
our shot what I found was this lovely
kind of door where if we stood on the
other side we can actually use the door
to frame our subject within the actual
frame of the image finally the door also
had these wonderful leading lines that
we position the height of the camera to
make sure that our leading lines kind of
led directly into our subject so in this
image I've placed my subjects once again
in the brightest part of the scene
they're framed directly over the road
and I'm standing at a distance we're
shooting on a 35 millimeter lens
shooting through the trees and we're
allowing the natural kind of foliage and
this kind of opening in the tree to
frame our subject while also leaving a
lot of negative space in the frame so
all the other leaves kind of act as
negative space that allows to kind of
pull directly into our subject finally I
added a sense of motion to the image by
asking him to give her a twirl and this
creates a sense of kind of movement and
a little bit of more interest than just
simply a static pose okay so one more
for this image we have six or seven
different compositional elements that
are at play here first our subject is
placed in the center of the frame and
we're again working with a symmetrical
composition but we have the buildings
that kind of frame her on each side on
top of this in addition to framing our
subject those buildings are giving us a
vanishing point that drops directly into
our primary subject I also lowered the
camera position so that we can place our
models head and torso over the brightest
area of the background the sky I wanted
that bright airy the background kind of
lead the eyes in so that we focused
directly on her on top of that she's
been positioned in a place where we have
nice
natural light from the scene kind of
making its way into the frame and right
onto her face to kind of leave her as
the brightest area of the image I also
instruct her to take a wide position
stance because since the camera was
shooting from a lower perspective I
wanted to give her a sense of strength
over the frame and I wanted the pose to
match that so we kind of widen out the
legs and gave her kind of this crossed
arm posed looking off frame to kind of
give her that sense of strength on top
of this I selected her outfit based on
the colors that we might naturally find
in San Juan Puerto Rico and adding to it
we took it into post-production and for
all of these images we're using visual
flow presets to create a soft sense of
warmth that kind of ties all the colors
into each other so for this image what
you really see are the warm tones along
with kind of the underlying blues and
pastels in the image so that's it and
next time you guys are all out and
shooting I want to challenge each of you
before you press the shutter see if you
can identify two or more compositional
techniques that you're using to tell the
story to bring the subject out in your
frame I hope you all enjoyed the video
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