Elwe Attempts Photography. Kinda.

Oh, rule of thirds is pretty basic. It's a general rule that can be broken under some circumstances. Generally people with a little bit of an artist eye will follow the rule without knowing it.

This is a really rough example, but yar, it'll do. (Some newer cameras have the option of enabling the rule of thirds grid on your LCD, so you can have them visibly there to aid you)

Basically imagine lines in your frame, each at the 1/3 mark horizontally and vertically. You want to put your subject on those lines, preferably at the intersections. Pretty flexible rule though I think.

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Here's a few simple pointers though that I hope can help you. I don't know how new you are though, so if some of these are "too newbie" for you, I didn't mean to offend you D: .

- manually set your whitebalance (Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent_H, Fluorescent_L, Tungsten, Custom), like in your tangerine photos, I'm pretty sure you changed the white balance there, it can make a pretty big difference to what is represented as "white". Just think of it being really cold or warm.

- if you're shoot still objects, try putting your camera on a small tripod (there are some super mini ones for point and shoots that are like, $10 and fit on your table top) and setting it to timer so you can get the sharpest photo possible

- set your focusing mode to center weighted. Sometimes the camera might not focus on what you want it to, so now it will always focus on the middle. So just focus on what you want, hold the shutter half way still, recompose your photo, and then push all the way to take the photo . I've been doing this all the time with my DSLR since the auto-focus points aren't always going to pick up on what I want.

- fiddle with the exposure compensation once in awhile (+2EV , -2EV), it can save you time from fudging in photoshop later and the such.

Well, that's about it. Have fun shooting of course, and try to bring your camera around more with you, best photo opportunities always seem to be the ones you miss :P.


Oh, and this one is my favorite of yours so far:

The disposable produced nice results for a vintage feel! haha

How ya doing, buddy?

The shot taken from your cottage is nice. The colours make it feel very homely haha.

I'll be honest with your latest batch of shots, not really a fan of them except for the 3rd one down. The warm colours give off that summer feeling and temperature. I have a bit of bias though, I like photos with a slight bit of warmer white balance haha.

What's that blue bowl thing? Public urinal? > > Looks gross haha.

There's nowhere I can't reach.