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Lead the eye through your frame. Elevate your compositional skills.

"Guiding the Eye" by David Osborn

Dear LuLa readers,
Welcome to "Shutter Shorts: Bite-sized Photo Lessons". We'll share concise tips or suggestions to elevate your photography, inspire you to explore, and elevate your visual storytelling. Whether you're a pro or beginner, these quick insights hope to help you capture the luminous landscape with greater impact and spark your creativity, shot by shot!
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The LuLa Team

Mont-St-Michel, Normandy France
One of the most common photography mistakes is creating photographs that don't direct the viewer's eye to the main subject, the picture's main attraction. When you make a photograph, it comes with an unwritten agreement between you and the viewer.
There are aspects the viewer is responsible for and those the photographer is responsible for. Knowing where to look in a picture is not the viewer's responsibility; it's your responsibility as the photographer to tell the viewer where to look.
Why? Our brain ...

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David Osborn is a professional photographer with 40 years of experience in hard news and corporate Photography and now teaches Photography and post-production full-time. As a personal tutor, David offers live online and in-person workshops teaching Artistic Knowledge, Photography Skills, and Photoshop Techniques to create beautiful, engaging travel and landscape Photography. David's philosophy is: 'If you know why pictures work,' you will know how to make pictures that work. How to put creativity back into Photography and gain creative satisfaction from Photography. My website, www.davidosbornphotography.com, explains much more.
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