Category — Composition

Subject Must Look At Camera
Somewhere in time it became a common admonition to make subjects look at the camera for portraits. However, this “rule” can cause a lot of grief and ruin photographs. Having a person looking at the camera and smiling can make a nice image. But if the subject continually wrinkles their forehead, [...]

Depth of Field
Depth of Field is the amount of your image before and beyond your focus point that will be in focus. Depth of field tells you whether or not your subject and background can be sharply focused at the same time.
Depth of field is determined by several factors:

Aperture/F-Stop
Lens
Subject Distance

While the camera can actually only focus [...]

Composition

Composition simply means how your image is put together. The greatest subject in the world will not automatically make a great image. You have to know how (and where) to put that image on film.
Rule of Thirds in Photography
The rule of thirds is one of the most basic composition guidelines in [...]