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.
The same is true if you place them lower in the picture, with more space above them than would be normal. The important thing to remember is that when it comes to composition there are no rights and wrongs; it’s all subjective. If it looks good to you and has impact, go with it.
Besides, you can make more impact by changing your height in relation to the person. You would make totally different effects, if you lie down and look up at them, or find an elevated area and look down at them. At first, you will make them look tall, elongating the legs and the body, but later in the second approach, the head will be the most prominent thing, with the body and legs receding.
Furthermore, you should take into consideration a diagonal composition (characteristically the digital camera has to be tipped 30 to 45 degrees from the horizontal). If everything is done the right way, you can really enhance the appeal of an image.
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