This document discusses fundamentals of photography composition including the rule of thirds, rule of odds, symmetry, depth of field, and bokeh. It explains these composition techniques and how they can be applied to portraiture and architecture photography. Developing an eye for angles, lines, and balance is important for improving photography skills. The goal is to learn how placement and arrangement of elements can enhance the feel and mood of an image.

1. Bringing Better BlogPhotography with Mishelle Lane

3. Rule of Thirds

4. Rule of Odds

6. Composition in Portraiture

7. Rule of Thirds

8. Rule of Odds

9. Rule of Thirds & Odds

10. Symmetry

11. All about the focus “Depth of Field”

12. What is D.O.F. ? “The range of distance within the subject that is acceptably sharp.”

13. Bokeh All Around

14. What is Bokeh? Bokeh is the name for the effect that denotes the appearance of an out-of-focus area in a photograph, produced by using a shallow depth-of-field. Controlling what is in focus, in a photograph, can seriously enhance the feel or mood Shallow Depth of Field; where the foreground is in focus and the background is blurry Wider Depth of Field; where everything in the photo is in focus or sharp

15. A Side of Bokeh, Please

16. Natural Bokeh

17. Bokeh in Portraiture

19. Angles

20. Lines

22. Angles in Portraiture

23. Angles in Architecture

24. Lines

25. Balance

26. Balance

27. “You don't take a photograph, you make it.” -Ansel Adams