Sickles Insight

Tips & Tricks - “Blurred Backgrounds”

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate
HOW IT WORKS: Generally speaking you want to bring as much attention to your subject as possible when taking a picture and great way to do this is to make the background blurry behind your subject. To do this you need to do three things:
1) […]

Tips & Tricks - “Rule of Thirds”

SKILL LEVEL: Beginners
HOW IT WORKS: When taking a picture, divide the image you see through the camera into thirds, both horizontally and vertically (shown above with black lines). Where these lines intercept are consideredto be “hot spots” (shown above with circles). The rule is when framing a picture […]