7 Hidden Features That Will Immediately Make Your Image More Attractive

7 Easy Composition Tips That Will Immediately Draw The Eye To Your Image

Once you’ve learned the basic principles of the Gestalt theory, composing pictures becomes much easier.

It really is quite simple to follow these tips and start shooting images that will instantly attract people. There are many different ways of composing an image – these seven tricks will get you started and you can even try combining some of them.

1. Proximity

A pair or group of objects that are close to each other are more likely to be perceived as belonging together than if they are far apart.

2. Similarity

Objects that are similar in shape, size or colour are seen as belonging together.

3. Closure

The mind completes shapes that don’t exist. This is a principle used in some optical illusions but it also applies to photography. Part of the skill of composition is learning to recognize shapes, and building the design of the image around them. The principle of closure helps you see shapes in the subject.

4. Simplicity

The mind perceives parallel lines that are close together as a single line.

5. Continuation

The mind assumes that lines extend beyond the edges of the frame.

6. Segregation

For human figures to be recognizable they must stand out from the background. That way we can identify them easily even if they’re small in the frame. This is a useful principle because you can include small human figures in the landscape to indicate scale.

7. Emergence

The viewer may not notice something in the photo when he first looks at it, but it becomes apparent after a period of study. It’s a way of rewarding the viewer, and gives photos staying power.

Read 5 more tips over at Digital Photography School.

Source: Digital Photography School

5 comments

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