The Photography Thread

[By-Tor]

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pj,

Mind going into a little more detail on why the no examples are wrong and why the yes examples are correct? I've never heard of this before.

I can understand the nature shots with the 1/3 sky & 1/3 land, but if you're taking pictures of friends, and it's just the friends you care about and not where they are at, then why would you offset them?

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Another decent explanation of the Rule Of Thirds.

[IggyWH]

Okay, so say you're taking a wide shot of a group of people. How would you go about doing this offsetting them?

From what you said, I see 2 options :

1)Cutting someone out of the picture (probably not an option)

2)Pulling back to you can get everyone in the shot while still offsetting them

What if you can't pull back though?

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Help a guy out here. My picture taking sucks and I usually end up deleting most picture I take because I think they look horrible.

[private joker]

You don't have to offset a group. I'm talking more about individual shots.

But no matter how many people are in the frame, don't make the mistake of giving them too much headroom. Take the tallest person in the shot, line up the top of their head with the top of the frame, and there's your composition.

[Analyst]

Wow, some great shots in this thread! I especially like Suzzer's dunes, By-tors beach and all of Divides-by-zero's.

Here's one I took recently while trying out my new macro lens:

[kidcolin]

d_b_z,

Your current desktop is where I lived freshman year. By the looks of your other photo, you live in Cambridge. The pic out the other window; Is that park right over the BU Bridge? I've seen that building before, but I didn't think there was one that close to that park.

I really like that shot of the leaves, btw.

[elus2]

A friend of mine took this pic over the summer when he went to europe

[divides_by_zero]

Yup, Cambridge, right across the river. It's not a park, it's the MIT football field - the building is Simmons Hall, dormitory.

Thanks for the compliments!

Once it warms up a bit I'm going to try to get some shots of the Boston Skyline at night from a vantage point I recently discovered.

[divides_by_zero]

Analyst, your photo is absolutely gorgeous. I love the colors so much.

God, I want a DSLR so bad. I love to shoot macros, but it takes a lot of bad shots to get one good shot with my little cybershot.

But when I do get one it's worth it :-)

[guids]

Wow, that colleseum one is ridic, look at the clouds, it reminds me of Gladiator. I also like the cement raod into the ocean in the OP, and the jets by-tor got, you can see the tail smoke out of the jet

[GrandmaStabone]

PJ,

Thanks for your contributions to this thread. The photos you provided as examples are slick and really illustrate what you were saying.

Anyways, I realized recently that I have taken very few pictures of my life for the last six years. For some reason I just never really thought about it. I regretted this a lot so I went out and got a digital camera last week.

Since then I have been taking pictures of everything and can't get enough of it. I find the entire process fascinating and it makes a great hobby. I've taken a few pictures I like, but nothing that would be considered 'good' by general standards.

I'd really like to learn more, does anyone else have any photography tips/advice they want to share?