https://www.workingwordzmedia.co.uk/30-days-of-pictures-smartphone-video-challenge/
As a novice photographer, here are a few tips from the many I learnt on Anne Gould's terrifically useful 30 Days Of Pictures Challenge. Anne is an experienced working journalist who runs smartphone and other digital media training courses, online. She's practical, approachable and hugely enthusiastic, so you feel motivated and encouraged by her training - and her focus is on learning to see rather than more technical matters..
1. COLOUR AND SHAPE
Seek out scenes which have interesting colour combinations and strong and perhaps repeated shapes in them, like this photo above. Our brains like the aesthetics of repetition and pattern.
2. LEADING LINES
Strong lines can take your viewer's eye into your photo, make it feel compelling and intriguing.
3. NiGHTIME PHOTOS
When taking photos at night, you want to reduce exposure. On a smartphone you do this by locking focus, and when the AE/AF function comes up, adjusting the slider. Here's more - lots more - on this function here:
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/ae-af-lock/
4. SYMMETRY
Again, our brains like to see things that have symmetry in them, like this harbour entrance in Aberaeron. Our photos can be pleasingly orderly even if our world isn't...
5. RULE OF THIRDS
Based on what was known in classical painting as the golden ratio, if we have margins and detail in our photos at where imaginary lines cutting the canvas into thirds would be, then it is pleasing to us aesthetically. These imaginary lines can be both vertical and horizontal.
These photos above are mostly from creative commons on the web, with a couple taken locally, as tentative early steps. But Anne's course has certainly hooked me.
If you'd like more tips on photography, FYI's Ann Seymour, photojournalist, has done a helpful article here:
http://reach.fyinetwork.co.uk/search%20photographer,39116-How-To-Take-Great-Photos
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