Frank Wang

A Crash Course in Photographic Composition

Hi Yeli, beautiful pictures (and baby).  

The first three images are beautiful detail images.  I like your subject placement in those images as well. 

Sleeping Baby 2 -  Good attempt to get the hand in the foreground, though because of the perspective, the hand looks too big and takes the attention away from the baby's face.  There's just a bit too much going on in the image that competes with your focal point.  

Sleepy Baby 3 - This is a beautiful shot.  You've got some nice light on these.  

Morning Sun 1 - Cool shot of the dog and good subject placement.  Since the dog's chest is so bright, I'd consider a very close crop that focuses just on the dog's eye.  That might be a pretty interesting picture.  

Morning Sun 2 - Nice diagonal with the carpet.  I wish the dog were looking at the window or at the camera.  

Morning Sun 3 - Also nice, esp the way you proportioned the image between dog &amp; background.  Watch your cropping on the bottom.  It's a bit tighter where the dog's whiskers touch the bottom of the frame.  

Money buddha 1/2 - #1 is a nice image, but #2 is even better.  You might brighten him a bit.  Remember to watch for the secondary elements in your scene - you might want to have moved the pendant on the left to the right to add some context.  Or have moved the pendant on the out of the scene entirely.  Right now it's not here or there.  

Thanks for posting these Yeli, looking forward to seeing more of the baby, dog, or both.


My fave here is Morning sun #3, and not just because I'm a sucker for cute pets.  You have beautiful warm light, the eye of the dog in the 'eye' of the picture (top right intersecting point) and some diagonals from the light. 

You may be a bit too close to your subjects to successfully achieve separation between foreground, subject and background. Move back a bit and 'unclutter' the baby pictures if you can. Also, that Buddha is a little dark: he would look amazing in that gorgeous golden light that doggie is soaking up :)


Thanks for the feedback Guido! I am looking forward to re-shooting with your suggestions and see what comes up.  Lucky for me Cleo (dog) loves to soak up the morning sun so it shouldn't be so difficult to catch her again.  The baby sleeps well after a good meal so I'll prop her up and see how it turns up!


Nice photos..."Sleeping Baby" = two thumbs up

I really like "money buddha 2."  Not particularly helpful, but I do care for that one much more than the first one.

Thank you Danae I have to work on that shot but I like it better as well

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Sleeping baby 1
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Baby hand white background
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Baby hand pink background
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Sleeping baby 2
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Sleeping baby 3
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Morning sun 1
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Morning sun 2
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Morning sun 3
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Money buddha 1
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Money buddha 2

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