If you think of the easiest ways to give your portraits more impact, change the composition and poses you use. If you always have the person standing in the middle, your images are soon going to be as predictable as another re-run of Last of the Summer Wine.
Thus, make some changes and don’t always have someone strictly in the centre. Experiment for a while and check what will happen when you place them more to one side. You will be surprised to find out that just a minor change will make a huge difference to the balance of the photo and a viewer’s experience of it. The rule of thirds is one of the best-known compositional rules. It means that you divide the picture up into nine squares. If you frame the shot so that the person occupies 2/3 of the picture, it will be dynamic but still in balance. The sense of drama will increase when you move them further to the side.
