Tip 3 For Better Snaps

Tip3...Since you have now mastered your camera and know what setting to use for any situation, you can think a little about composition. We've all looked through someone's photos and been bored to tears by 100 shots of a person/people sitting on a bench followed by a slightly different person/people sitting on a slightly bench followed by those same person standing against a brick wall followed by the second person plastered up against that same wall..don't you want to just scream "I can't look at one more shot!"? How can you make your photos something interesting? Composition would help. Don't put the bench in the center and the person sitting on the bench in the center. An easy rule of composition to remember is called "the rule of thirds".

Imagine your photo is divided equally by 2 horizontal and 2 vertical lines,(into 3 rows of 3 equal squares in other words)and try to put your subject on one of the intersecting lines, hopefully looking into the photo. ie if your subject is on the farhest left line he should be facing toward the right, even slightly. So little Johnny's face would be on the top/ left intersection, looking right. It makes the photo less static and lots more interesting!

This works for any subject not just people. see the example