Basics of Photography

Clicking Great Pictures is in the hands of the Photographer, rather than the equipment the photographer uses!

Many times, most of us tend to click pictures as we want (Don't worry, I too do that). And most of those pictures don't come out catchy. For clicking marvelous and amazingly blessed pictures, it's not important to have the world's most sophisticated camera, or the world's most Fortunate Photographer. It's the Composition that does the trick. Keep your composition right, and everything falls the way you want it.

Here are few tips (thumb rules) to compose your pictures:

1. The Rule of Two Thirds (Tells, not to keep the subject in the centre, always!)
Divide your composition (what you see in the Camera's Viewfinder) into nine equal parts as shown in the picture below:

This way, you have to imagine, 4 lines, two vertical and two horizontal. The points where they intersect are the points where our subjects should be present.

As can be seen in this photo clicked by me, the subject is the guy (who inturn is actually busy clicking from his camera) is placed at the Bottom-Right point out of the four points.

Without commenting, if the subject would have been placed at the centre, the picture would have not been, what it is now.

Again, this is not a Hard-n-Fast Rule, it is a Recommendation only. And it means that, it can be broken. But, the perfect photographer is the one, who evaluates, whether or not this rule should be used, for the situation he/she is, before the subject disappears.

And that's one of the biggest challanges for any Amateur Photographer.

See the End Result: