An advantage of being "of a certain age" is that you usually have lots of childhood photographs of your younger relatives to show them as they reach maturity. You might also realise that your own photographic skills have matured as well. In my case - they need to have. Take this photo for example: viewpoint too high, bodies cut off at the knees, all that wasted space at the top, and a tree growing out of their heads! One of the biggest mistakes of my early photographs was not to reframe the image after focusing. The focusing screen is usually in the middle of the viewfinder, so if you focus on the eyes, but then do not compose the image properly, this is the effect you end up with.Imagine the ways this image may have been improved if I had done a few simple things:
- brought the camera down to the subjects' eye level
- moved to the left to change the background from the next door house to the lovely garden, in the process removing the tree from directly behind the children
- turned the camera to a vertical composition to capture the kids in full length.
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