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Intersections

Intersections

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Intersections

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Just down the road from lodge, we found this cool old amusement park. There's lots of nice texturey shapes here and a lot of really interesting geometry, a lot of strong colors. It's a place that's you definitely want to start shooting when you drive by, kind of needs a subject so it's a kind of place that you might want to do portraiture. It's got these really strong lines, and so we've run into a problem here. I've got this thing sticking out of my head. This is a case of bad intersections in a composition. It would be very easy to frame this shot this way because you're so focused on me, on the subject, that you just don't notice that in the background, things in the image are intersecting such that I've got this large piece of metal sticking out of the top of my head. This is a very easy problem to fix. I just move to the right, or you shift your camera, ah, that feels much better. Now I am no longer intersecting with a carnival ride. There's a very easy way that you can keep…

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