Photography - Holding Your Viewer’s Attention
Originally posted at Beyond Megapixels.
One of the most important things your photo should have is an
ability to hold your viewers attention. There are a lot of techniques
that can be used to help you compose your shot so that people will
spend more than a second looking at it. Besides keeping your viewers
focused on your photo, the techniques below can also help emphasis your
main subject.
There are many ways to hold your viewer’s attention. Here are five that you can easily start off with:
1. VIGNETTE
A
vignette is a gradual loss of light and picture quality towards the
edge of the photo due to poor lens construction. Although it is
considered a lens aberration, a vignette is helpful in drawing the
viewer’s attention towards the center of the photo. It also adds
character to a photo since it makes it look like it was taken with an
old camera.
CC Photo by australian overanalyzerTo add a vignette to an existing photo with Adobe Photoshop, refer to our previous article found here.
2. SHOOT THROUGH A FRAME
This
is probably one of the oldest tricks in the book. You simply choose an
object you can shoot through that frames your main subject.
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