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12 Creative Composition Tips for Photographers

Composition Tip: Don't just shoot subjects for what they are.

Twelve Tips for How to Compose Creative Photographs

Award-Winning photographer Huntington Witherill keeps his creative composition tips coming in our new video, “Photography Tips: Composition Secrets with Huntington Witherill, Ep.2.”

In Marc Silber’s Show, Advancing Your Photography’s latest video, wildly-imaginative photographer Huntington Witherill reveals twice as many creative composition tips for photography. He opens up even more about his unique approach to photography and tells us why he throws photography rules out the window! Be ready to take notes, these are 12 must-see composition tips you don’t want to miss!

Creative Composition Tip: Don’t just shoot subjects for what they are.

Creative Composition Tip: Don’t use standard crop dimensions.

Creative Composition Tip: Be aware of subject’s lines, flow, interaction with other subjects.

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We took some notes for you from Photography Tips: Composition Secrets with Huntington Witherill, Ep.2″:

Be conscious of the edges and corners of the frame
Avoid bright objects in the edges and corners of the frame
Orchestrate how the eye will travel through the photograph
Spacing is important in the frame
“There should be no

[photography] rules.”- Huntington Witherill

World is not in 8×10, so don’t feel like you need to use standard crops

Leave room around your subject(s)

Move in to the subject as much as you can

Know what you are trying to say with the photograph

Don’t look at subjects for what they are. Look at subjects for shapes, lines, forms of movement, how shapes relate to each other

Arrange subjects to have visualize balance (not necessarily symmetry)

Experience is key!

If you missed episode 1, click here to watch the video.

Composition Tip: Capture subjects for what they are and what they are not.

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For more of Huntington Witherill’s amazing photographs, check out his website: www.huntingtonwitherill.com

Hollie Fleck

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