The one thing I’m consistently working on is photo composition.  This is one area of photography I think everyone can always use a little more education on.  I found a really great article online at Outdoor Photography written by Adam Barker, which can be found by clicking here.

After reading Adam’s article I really took notice of one thing I need to really focus on:  Slowing down.  I know that I can get excited getting to a location and wanting to just start shooting the camera, but taking the time to slow down and observe all the elements around me is really what I need to do.  Luckily I thought about this as I did some photography this weekend and it really helped.  Instead of shooting large wide-open spaces, I focused more on single subjects and eliminating unnecessary objects from the composition.  For example, I found two large barrels in a garden that I wanted to take a photo of, but the first photo I took was off the cuff and with no real thought.  I then slowed down and focused more on the subject that I wanted to photograph and tightened up the composition.  The end result on the second photo I found to be a much better than the first one:

Even though Adam’s article is primarily using landscape photography as the main focus, you can adapt his information to just about any kind of photography you do.