I would like to share some of my thoughts about how I take photos and what made me compose them the way I did.
Lets take a look at the first one – it was shot at Sydney’s Northern Beaches in Turimetta.

Geometrical Greens – by Kajo Merkert

I was obviously drawn to those beautiful geometrical lines of those wonderful rocks, as well as the fluroescent greens just before sunrise when the first light hits them. There are several rocks that form lines that seem to almost meet in one point at the horizon. This is an old artist’s trick, called vanishing point.

It gives a lot of depth to the image and makes it look more 3-dimensional.

Can you find the leading lines?

Take a look at the below photo:

See how they all converge and almost meet in one point at the horizon?

It really helps to previsualize this and then just drop your camera (and tripod) in the right spot where it all lines up nicely.

Try to train your eye to see things like that before you take the shot, it simply takes some training.

I will post the next shot of that morning tomorrow, so check back then.

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