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| Beaver Lodge with Larch Seeley Lake, Montana |
One of the easiest ways to add variety to your photography collection is to shoot both a horizontal and a vertical version of any subject. You may decide to make slight adjustments to each composition, depending on which orientation you begin with.
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| Beaver Lodge with Larch Seeley Lake, Montana |
The other advantage of "taking two" of any scene is that it helps train your eye to see when either a horizontal or a vertical framing best fits the subject. Sometimes one way eliminates distractions the other way includes and vice versa.
Shooting both horizontal ("landscape") and vertical ("portrait") is part of "working the subject" to see how many different compositions you can create from the same material. Practice these and other composition techniques for stronger images in Fundamentals of Photo Composition, beginning online Wednesday, October 28, 2020, at the Lifelong Learning Center in Missoula, Montana. Click here to register.