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Using and recognizing the rule of thirds

Using and recognizing the rule of thirds

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Using and recognizing the rule of thirds

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If you handed most people a camera and asked them to take a picture of something, chances are they'd take off the lens, walk right up to it, and shoot it straight on. And while that's all well and good for a snapshot, your craft photography deserves so much more than that. So we're here in nature right now, this beautiful setting, and what we're going to do today is take some really great shots of our crafts. We've made these beautiful terariums, and they kind of reflect the area that we're shooting in. So, I thought it would be great to place them all on this stump and really get some interesting compelling angles. And I'm all about angles, because everywhere you look you see a lot of craft photos, product photos that are just really kinda straight on or straight above. And that really works well with somethings, but when you've got a setting like this you just have to take advantage of it. So what we're going to do is just take a couple of pictures and it's, it's, you know we're out…

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