Dispatch #1: 3 Photo Basics Worth Re-Learning
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July 23, 2008
The Right Way to Travel
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Today, as your official Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop Spy here in San Francisco, I got to eavesdrop on some solid photo basics that are really worth re-learning. Especially for travel writers who, like me, want to sell photos with their stories.
1. Rule of Thirds:
This is the big one. As Shelly explained it, using the Rule of Thirds is the number one way to add interest to the composition of your photo. To do it, you just divide your photo into thirds horizontally and vertically, with four imaginary dividing lines. Then, you line up the subject of your photo, or the horizon, or whatever element is the focal point of your photo, on any one of those lines.
Here’s an example:
Notice that in the first frame, the subject is right in the middle of the photo. After cropping it and dividing it up into thirds, the subject is right on the intersection of two “thirds lines,” increasing this photo’s interest.
2. Framing.
Another quick-and-easy way to add interest to your photo is to frame your subject with objects in the foreground.
For example, in this photo of the George Washington Masonic Temple in Alexandria, Virginia, the building is framed by the branches and leaves in the foreground:
3. Composition with lines.
Horizontal lines can add interest to your photos and add emphasis to your subject. You can see it happening in this photo of Shelly’s, where the strong horizontal lines lead to the subject:
If you couldn’t be here to listen to Shelly spill her best photo-selling secrets, don’t fret... we’re getting them all on tape, along with all the other insights shared by the travel writing experts gathering here in San Francisco over this long weekend.
I’ll let you in on the highlights each day. But I know there will be way more than I can fit into these dispatches.
Luckily, with our 2008 Ultimate Workshop-At-Home, you can get an audio recording of every word uttered, every PowerPoint slide shown, and every handout distributed -- all conveniently posted online.
That means you can rewind, pause to go grab a coffee, or even burn the recordings to a CD and listen to them in the car on the way to that job of yours. Follow the step-by-step guidance our experts offer up, and you may not need that job this time next year. You could be getting paid to travel…
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Sincerely,
Bonnie Caton
Your Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop Spy
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