Simple Guidelines; Essential For Better Photography

1) Leading Lines - Path that leads to the main subject of the photograph :

2) Symmetry :

3) Greater Depth of Field - [ Smaller Aperture, Deeeper DOF ], and, Balancing Elements :

4) Shallow Depth of Field :

5) Sense of Space - Positive Space for Direction of Movement :

6) Shooting Horizontal(Landscape) for Wide Subject :

7) Shooting Vertical (Portrait) for a Tall Subject :

8) Silhouette :

9) Bokeh :

10) Panning - Moving the camera along with the object in it's direction, to get a blur background showing motion :

11) Motion Blur of Rotational Objects, such as Helicopter Rotor Blades - Requires relatively lower shutter speeds, below 1/200 and slower the better :

12) Back-Lit Image [rear light source illuminating only subject] - needs a wide aperture and high shutter speed :

13) Shoot at Eye-Level : Placing the Eyes of your Subject at the same horizon of your camera.

All Photographs are rightful property of Mr. Arnav Pai and under no circumstances must any of the above images be reproduced in any manner.