One of the best things you can do as a landscape photographer to improve your photographs is to master your compositions. For many, working on composition is difficult, with the pieces never quite coming together, even after watching videos and reading articles. These seven tips aim to change that.
Once you’ve mastered your camera and the basic technical components of photography, composition becomes one of the biggest things you can work on to improve your photography. An often-heard piece of advice for improving your compositions is to simplify your scene. But what does that mean?
In this video, Nigel Danson provides seven excellent tips to help you simplify your compositions. Danson acknowledges that beginning photographers overcomplicate their scenes with too many elements in the frame and general clutter. While many instructors provide the advice to simplify a scene, Danson offers seven easy-to-follow tips to actually do that.
From the basics of controlling the borders of the frame and being aware to using zoom lenses to isolate the interesting parts of a scene, to using the foreground to enhance rather than detract from an image, Danson clearly articulates how to simplify a composition.
I found the video very helpful and a great place to start for a photographer looking to improve their compositions through simplification. While the advice to simplify is not new to me, the tips Danson provides make it clear what a photographer can do and be aware of to actually create simpler scenes and compositions.
Thanks for the tips. I don't think I can employ them all at once but I will try to master them one at-a-time. I like how you keep it simple so it's easy to follow and implement. I am getting some new gear and am eager to try out some of these ides you presented.