Small PowerPoint on how to take the perfect picture

1. Taking the Perfect
Picture
By Eloise Barrett

2. The Rule of Thirds
When taking a picture imagine your screen sectioned into a 3x3 grid, most cameras will
have a setting where you can apply a grid overlay, position the thing/person you are
taking a picture of on along the lines where they both meet(shown in the picture below,
circled in red) they don’t have to be positioned exactly on the line but somewhere close
would be nice. The rule of thirds is very versatile and can be used on any subject.
The person holding the surf board is
pictured to the right, so its not making
us think it’s a still picture but it is
making us think that they are about to
run in to the water. An off-centre
composition is more pleasing to the
eye and looks more natural than one
where the object or person is placed
right in the middle of the frame.

3. Pictures are better to look at and
enjoy when they are balanced.
Take this picture for example…
This picture looks like it has been
taken, cut across the centre and then
flipped upside down and stuck to the
bottom to make it look how it does.
The angle of the camera and
the position of everything/one
has made it do that naturally, it
is just the water reflecting
everything which makes the
pictures more pleasing to look
at.

4. Do not steal attention from your subjects.
Take this picture for example, this
person wanted to take a picture of the
house, not the cars. The parked cars
just distract what the photographer was
focused on but us being the viewers
believe that they may have wanted to
capture it all instead of this one thing.