From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography

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Experiment and have fun

Experiment and have fun

From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography

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Experiment and have fun

- Alright, well here we are at our final composition tip, and this one is all about experimenting and having fun. You know, sometimes what can happen is when you learn compositional rules, they can make you a little bit stiff, because you can think, "Oh my gosh, I need to do this or that." And then what tends to happen is we take photography a little bit too seriously, and that shows up in the frame. And what I've found is that when you're working with people, sometimes you just kind of need to let loose, experiment, and have fun. And you need to do this regardless of what you're photographing. And so what I'm going to do is show a few examples, and I'll talk about example-photographing my kids, a movie star, and an artist. So let's start off with my kids. Well, I was out in this field back behind our house, and we happened upon this huge tire. And so my kids started to play with the tire, so of course, we were rolling it, they were walking on it, and then I asked my daughter, I said,…

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