Photography Monday - 10 Tips To Take Better Photographs

If you're like most parents, you don't have $500 - $1,000 to spend on a professional photographer who will give you around 10 photos.  You probably have a camera though.  It might not be a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex), but is probably good enough to capture your memories.  Here are 10 basic tips for better photos of your kids and family.

Photography Monday - Rule of Thirds

Let me just say, I love photography, and always have, but once I learned the rule of thirds and started focusing on making my photos instead of just taking snapshots, I grew to love photography even more.  If I could teach you just one thing to help you take better photos it would be the rule of thirds.  It's one of many compositional rules you can do.

Let's start first with the question, What is composition?

Answer: Composition is the way you frame a photo, the subject you choose to be in the photo, the way you focus a photo, depth of field, position of the subject, lighting, and even color scheme.  There's a lot that goes in to composition, but today we'll just be focusing on the 'rule of thirds'.