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Just a short lesson, try to build your photos in third, the main subject should be 1/3 part into the screen, that means you'd better
back of just a little in the dog photo for example, place the free space ahead of the dog and try to get something interesting in front of it as well.
Also try to keep your camera at the same level as your focus point.
These two tips may help you imrpove your photographing a lot!

Just a little bit more, I took the time to laborate just a little bit with these in photoshop, the colors are a little bitt dull, the pictures can get fixed quite easily in photoshop
with increasing contrast/lowering brightness + adding some sharpness
This post was edited by hestJaevel on Jan 27 2010 01:32pm