Composition tips

1. Emphasize through placement: slightly off center.
2. Emphasize through relative size: fill frame
3. Emphasize through framing: sense of depth and perception, guides viewers eye
4. Emphasize through selective lighting
5. Emphasize through selective focus
6. Emphasize with converging lines: low camera angle or wide angle
7. Emphasize through repetition: lines, curves, circles, triangles, and squares.
8. Emphasize through motion
9. Emphasize foreground object with wide angle, move in close
a. Vertical: foreground on the bottom
b. Horizontal: object to one side
10. Use a large dominate foreground subject with a with complimentary background.
11. Use a smaller foreground element leading to a larger background element
12. Compose in a way to create diagonal or direct lines from on to another.
13. Shoot horizontal and vertical.
14. Use backgrounds as subjects
15. Concentrate on a single subject; try to isolate it against a plain background.
16. Use contrasts:
a. Light and dark
b. Color and monochrome
c. Contrasting colors
d. Large and small
e. Texture and smooth
f. Warm and cool colors
17. Find center of interest.
18. Keep backgrounds simple
19. Follow the rule of thirds
20. Do not put horizon in dead center of frame
21. Use lines of direction to lead eye into the frame: diagonal, ‘S’ curves.
22. Vary POV
23. Radical balance: feeling of directional movement