Composition Study

An example of the rule of thirds.

This picture was taken when I first walked outside after the first night in Florida, during February vacation. It was a little chilly, but the weather was surprisingly still hospitable. I saw this bush that is right next to my house, and the warm-pink flowers that lied there caught my attention after the first half second I put my eyes on them. I decided to take a picture, and some of my challenges were my sister running around and the incredibly defensive bee that was threatening my attempt.

Another example of the rule of thirds.

While the focus of the last picture were the flowers, this picture's focus is the green house. The eye tends to look at the basically screaming orange, but the focus, at  the corner of the picture, is the green house.

An example of the fill-the-frame composition rule. 

Another example of the fill-the-frame composition rule. 

My biggest challenge, and it is quite visible here, was the squirrel's tail. I did not want to crop its tail, the picture would be incomplete if I did so. I left it like this, only cropping the background "excess" and making sure the squirrel was the main focus of the picture. Odd it may seem, the squirrel remain still and photogenic as I spent three minutes trying to take the picture, so it helped me a lot.