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Keynote for PhotoCamp London, Ontario: Sept 11, 2010 Quick tips and example of setting up effective photo composition when traveling with a pocket camera: how to crop, center and frame your shot for great photos on the road.

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Composition on the Road

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Composition on the Road

how to set up great shots when you don't have time for setup

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Some of my favourite photos:

my best composition examples

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Cardinal Rule:EDIT EDIT

EDIT

4 days in Las Vegas

500 photos (125 photos/day)kept 150 photos= deleted 350 photos that didn’t pass my standards

*set your bar exceptionally high for the photos you keep

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Three Scenarios

1) Urban settings

2) Crowds

3) People you’re traveling with

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#1Urban

Settings

1) Take lots and lots and lots of the same shots. One will be perfect.

2) Keep a close eye of the edges of your frame: don’t cut out essential parts of buildings and backgrounds

3) Look for interesting lines within buildings/towers/trees/people and use those to frame the shot

4) Move yourself to position your subject

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keep an eye for the edges of photos:I didn’t cut off the top of this building

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look for neat angles to frame your shot

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look for neat angles to frame your shot

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keep an eye for the edges of photos:I didn’t cut off the name “Rectory” on the building

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position yourself to align your subject:I couldn’t move the tricycle, so I moved myself to centre the tricycle in the window pane

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look for neat angles to frame your shot:I walked around to the back of the Capitol building and shot it from the side

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look for lines in buildings to follow: I kept the edges of the arches of the Eiffel tower

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look for neat angles to frame your shot:I used this pool to create a foreground for the Louvre Pyramid

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keep an eye for the edges of photos:I didn’t cut off the words in the “Moulin Rouge” sign

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look for neat angles to frame your shot:I used the lawn to create a foreground for the lake at Versailles

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position yourself to align your subject:I moved around until the “Tate Modern” sign fit within the bridge opening

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look for neat angles to frame your shot:I used this small park to create a foreground for Buckingham Palace

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position yourself to align your subject:I moved around until the statue of Saint Peter was framed in front of the Vatican

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#1Urban

Settings: Continued

5) Stand in the middle of urban scenes:I love (safely) getting into the middle of roads

6) Crop out the stuff you don’t want (roads/people/etc) by cutting out the bottoms/tops of photos: results are impressive

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Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the crowds below the pagoda in Burma

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Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the street around Westminster Abbey

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Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the crowds below Notre Dame

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Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the streets in Hong Kong to focus on the living conditions

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Stand safely in the middle of urban scenes: traffic islands work great! It looks amazing when you stand in the middle of a street

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Stand safely in the middle of urban scenes: be very careful taking photos while crossing on a red light

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#2Crowds

1) Stick your hand up and point the camera down at the crowd

Result: a shot of the top of the crowd that makes it look like a sea of people

2) Don’t cut off people’s legs. Crowds look great when you can see them walking

3) Capture a crowd doing something: like shopping in a market: get inside the crowd

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Don’t cut off people’s legs:crowds look great when you can see them walking

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Step back from crowds to capture their relation to the scene

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Don’t cut off people’s legs:crowds look great when you can see them walking

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Stick your hand up and tilt the camera down to capture the tops of crowds and make them look like a sea of people

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Capture what the crowd is doing

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Capture what the crowd is doing

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Don’t cut off people’s legs:crowds look great when you can see them walking

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#2Crowds

4) If you’re really lucky: get the crowd to interact with you

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#3People you’re traveling with

1) Walk ahead of behind your friends so you can place them within a scene.

2) Either frame theme tight (portrait) or get their whole body: don’t cut off legs/feet.

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Walk ahead or behind your friends to capture them within the context of a scene

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Don’t cut off feet/legs: show their whole body within a scene

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Walk ahead or behind your friends to capture them within the context of a scene

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If you aren’t capturing their whole body, crop nice and tight to show emotion

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Thank You