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#DEFINE HIGHLIGHT BLOCKING IN PHOTOGRAPHY HOW TO#

Master composition for yourself: Photography Composition Tips To make better and more simple compositions, just block out what is distracting and superfluous from your frame! Think of other creative or innovative ways you can simplify your photos by blocking out distractions!.Put your subject on the extreme left or the right of your frame, and try to make everything else in the photo pure black. Practice shooting at home with your loved ones.Have fun with your compositions! Tilt your camera, and try to make your photos more dynamic and ‘edgy’.Or shoot in RAW, and when you’re processing your photos, increase the ‘blacks’ slider. Practice shooting high-contrast black and white JPEG mode on your camera, to better visualize the blocking technique.Rather, re-frame your scenes, by making your subject look very small, but put something in the foreground (like a wall) to block out distracting elements from your frame. Use a wide-angle lens (28mm, 35mm), and don’t zoom.To make a more interesting photo in Lisbon of the statue of Jesus, I made the Jesus statue really small on top of the frame, and added something in the foreground to block out the rest of the frame. I was in the passenger side, and to simplify the composition, I added the car door on bottom of the frame, to block out the distracting elements in the scene– to focus on the dog looking out.Īnother photo on RICOH GR II (28mm wide-angle). To do this, focus on the subject really far away - and try to have an element in the foreground ‘block’ out all the clutter from the rest of the photo. Shot on 28mm on RICOH GR II - note how I framed the photo to make the man on the top really small. To make better compositions, block out distracting elements from your photos:
