| It's true-you can make a beautiful scrapbook with less | | | | cannot capture this perfectly, you can always crop |
| than perfect pictures. However, if you learn to make | | | | your photograph when you scrapbook to help your |
| the most of your photography, you will find that you | | | | picture adhere to the rule of thirds. Remember that |
| spend less time working on embellishing a page | | | | you don't always have to stick to this rule, but it may |
| because the pictures will speak for themselves. Digital | | | | help you find your shot. |
| cameras make it easy to delete blurry or otherwise | | | | The rule of thirds is not the only composition trick that |
| bad shots, but you may not get the second chance to | | | | photographers use to create beautiful photographs. A |
| capture your infant's precious smile or your pet's latest | | | | lot has to do with subject matter. Every picture has a |
| antic. Be armed with your camera at all times, and | | | | background and foreground, but if you cut most of that |
| keep a few tried and true rules in your head to take | | | | out and fill the frame with your subject matter you will |
| shots that will stun. | | | | usually have a much better picture. Also, look at the |
| This is the most talked about photography technique, | | | | lines in a picture. This is especially helpful with a |
| and once the mystery is taken away, you will find that | | | | landscape shot, because by placing the horizon on one |
| it is also one of the simplest ways to separate good | | | | of the lines you created with the rule of thirds, you will |
| shots from breath-taking ones. The initial concept is | | | | have a much more effective shot. Diagonal lines should |
| simple. Imagine you have drawn a tic-tac-toe board in | | | | be used to create interest. For example, railway tracks |
| the frame. Therefore, you have two lines running | | | | cutting across the frame and leading your eye through |
| vertically and two lines running horizontally, intersecting | | | | the sweet spots will give you a better shot. |
| at four points. Your initial urge is probably to center an | | | | Lastly look at color. This is important even in black and |
| image-and this sometimes proves to be the best | | | | white photographs. Make sure that the light and dark |
| option-but the four points of intersection are what | | | | colors are balanced. By doing this when you take the |
| professional photographers refer to as "sweet spots." | | | | picture, you will be able to create better pages that are |
| Our eyes are naturally drawn to these places on a | | | | coordinated to match your photographs, and by |
| page, so when the main points of a subject matter, | | | | following the other tips your will be able to create |
| such as your cat's face, fall on one of these spots, the | | | | better pages in general. |
| picture looks more appealing and balanced. If you | | | | |