Tip # 5 Adding Dimension to your photo's
Hello again....yes slack I know very slack, I have not entered a tip for a few days I apologise!
Today is a simple technique to add dimension, layers (and effectiveness) to your photo. This can be used with portraits, landscape etc. Today I will focus on landscapes. This is not something that I have read anywhere and I am not entirely even sure what it is called!! But in studying other people's and my own photo's and self learning which most of you are doing, I know it is a technique which works well and does add a dimension to photo's. Similar to framing, but not so obvious. When you have your subject in mind, as with framing, you can choose to simply take the photo of the subject (which of course always works well!!) But for something different, try adding something in the foreground which does not detract from the object, but demonstrate the depth and dimension to your photo. eg in this photo I took in New Zealand a few years ago as an absolute amateur completley unedited straight from the camera......without knowing this technique - I still used it. Instead of just photographing the beautiful lake/mountains etc, I added the dimension of the boat to the side. It does not detract from the photo as the subject is still clearly the landscape, however, it has added the dimension of being on a boat, having a foreground and layers in the shot without detracting from the subject.....see what I mean? You can use this in almost any form....just remember...you don't want it to detract from your photo or it will become messy and too busy and noone will know what the actual subject is and where to look. If you are using this as a technique simply to add dimension and layers SUBTLE is the key!
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