When learning photography… leading lines is one of the best composition tools for creating amazing images. This photo is a little boring, even though I composed it perfectly. And the final image will be the difference between night and day. Before I reveal it, can you guess the primary composition technique used? If you said leading lines, you’re correct. There are multiple lines from the pier and the railing that all lead us to the star of the show, which is this structure at the end of the pie

Learn photography the easy way by discovering the one thing that is killing this composition. Can you spot the one thing killing this composition? It's kind of a trick question and you'll learn why once I reveal the problem with this photo. Let's start with the obvious… we know who the star of the show is, or the primary subject… the Monarch butterfly. It's slightly off-center and almost aligns with the Rule of Thirds. The stem it's grasping onto is a nice leading line that reaches from the bott

This question is key to learning photography… Do you see the two problems with this photo? It's the same mistakes I see a lot of photographers make. The first problem is that our teeny, tiny hummingbird gets lost in all the distractions around it. Even though the background is blurred, it's not blurred enough. There's too much detail competing for attention, and it's hard for our eyes to stay on the humming bird when there's so much happening behind it. Plus, all the leaves on the right side are