Birmingham Photographer | Photo Tip Friday

Thank goodness it's Friday! Here's your tip for the week. I guarantee you that this tip will dramatically improve the look of your personal snapshots and really make your albums stand out.

Being appointed official family photographer, you have privileges that others can't get away with so easily. One of the rules of etiquette tells us not to invade the personal space of others. However, when it comes to basic photography tips, you are encouraged to ignore this rule. You want to be close enough to your subject so that they fill at least 85% of the frame, while the background contributes no more than 15%. If you are a stickler for etiquette and don't want to be that up close and personal with your subjects, use the zoom on your camera and they'll never know.
The key assumption here is that the background in question is irrelevant. If, for example, you were in front of Mt. Rushmore or a famous location, you might consider breaking this rule.

Here is an example I found on my hard drive. This picture doesn't have much of an impact.


This has much more visual interest. See what I mean?