Photographers: How to go beyond the pretty picture?

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Although I am not a “photographer” by any means, I once heard a professional photographer talk about some of his photos for a short amount of time. I thought is was interesting some of the techniques that he used which, although un-intuitive, made his photos look much better. I can’t remember most of it, but one thing that he never did was to point his camera directly at the object that he photographing. The object was always off to the side, with the general rule being “moving objects need room to move”. Just something interesting I’d thought I’d share

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