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A picture can say a thousand words. I’m sure you have heard this before. However, there is a very good reason this saying was made. Pictures are very powerful at telling stories. If you can take pictures to tell interesting and captivating stories, your photos will become much more interesting and viewers will become addicted and craving for more of your photos. This article will give you some info on how to tell stories in your shots.

The first step in creating stories in your photos is developing a main concept to work on. Concepts could be things such as pleasure, peace, happiness, anger, etc.

After you get the concept you want to tell the story on now you are going to focus on symbols. Symbols are devices that represent things such as the concepts above. For example, flowers could be a symbol for love.

After you have this down you are going to want to think of a story tell that has to do with a flower and is related to love or whatever concept you have. For example, you could have two flowers positioned so that they are kissing or two flowers positioned so they’re holding hands.

Of course, the example above is a somewhat strange and quirky style of photographing. This would work great for a quirky photographing style. You can try different ways to position the flowers for different styles of photography.

Overall, simple stories are the best to work with. Harder and more complex stories are difficult to show in a single image and can be hard for people to understand. You could, however, set up a series of pictures that tell a story.

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The rule of thirds is a very useful tool for composing images in photography. And to top it off, it’s free! Doesn’t require any add on equipment to your camera, any shoe mounts, anything like that! This article will attempt to demystify the mysterious Rule of Thirds.

To follow this rule, simply take a photo and divide it up into three sections vertically and three sections horizontally. Now, as you can see from doing this there are three boxes on the top, three in the middle, and three at the bottom. The box in the middle of all of them is the center. This compositional rules basically advises you not to take pictures in that middle box.

What this does is makes you have to try and position the subject so that he/she or it is not dead center. This creates more visually interesting images.

When you take a photo of a person, the main focal point will be the eyes. Now, you can take a photo of a person dead center, however, follow the rule still! Put the eyes anywhere but the middle box. You can put the eyes in the top box instead. Their body will be dead center but their face will be in the upper area.

Now, when you follow this rule you also need to be careful to leave plenty of head room when shooting people. This room is space around the head and will make your photo not look claustrophobic. Also, if your person is looking towards the left, leave plenty of room at the left side of the photo and less on the right.

Al Sanchez has a Free Photo 101 E-course that teaches digital photography. He also has another free program on how to Sell Your Pictures Online