bee in flight

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Get In Close For Better Pictures

raddad! took Champloo’s fill the frame advice a bit further by offering this tip

When framing a shot get close, then when you think your close enough, get closer.

Framing is such an integral part of good photography that it was mentioned twice as a tip for new photographers.

Super close framing can take your photography to a new level. This isn’t just about zooming in or ultra tight cropping.

As a visual group, photographers tend to get caught up in trying to tell the whole story. What’s going in the image could benefit by leaving much to the imagination.

Good writers will often allow for their readers to fill in some of the blanks on their own. It creates a more personal experience to reading a book. It allows your own imagination to put you in the story.

Photographers should look at their images as little stories. By getting so close to the subject that there is no discernible background, you are allowing your viewer to “fill in the blanks”.

I could see that bee and flower in my yard (if I had a yard) or down the street or in a park. It allows me to place that bee and flower in my world. For all I know, raddad could live in a crowded city with no real wilderness around him and that could simply be a potted plant! But because there is no background he left me, the viewer, to create my own back drop to the story.

Engage your viewers. Let them fill in the blanks by getting so close one would have to wonder where that image took place.

Photograph bee in flight by raddad who happens to have a couple of books for sale on blurb The Southwest Through My Lens and Mackinaw Trip.

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