Photography: Analyze Your Photographs

Look at your photographs of mountains. Do you have trees, branches, flowers, a totem pole, a flying bird, a couple arm-in-arm surveying the scene . . . something in the foreground . . . to create depth and make the photograph interesting?

Take a look at the photograph of Mount Rainier which I used for the month of February in the 2008 Edgar Cayce Calendar. The many people who “oo” and “ah” when they see this Mount Rainier photograph, likely do not analyze that one of the reasons the photograph is so special is because of the silhouetted dark trees in the foreground.

Does your image look flat? Next time find a place to take the photograph where you can get something interesting and complementary in the foreground. It could even be a lake or road curving around on one side of the image or even a couple of boulders at one edge of the image. Play with this. It’s fun.

Carol Chapman —

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