Composition Review: 3 rules

Original picture

Cropped photo

http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/3372/18-composition-rules-for-photos-that-shine/

Rule of Thirds, Filling the Frame, and Leading Lines.

First Portrait: Andrew

For this photo, I only made the colors more vibrant to look brighter and bolder.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait: I took this photo in the morning when I climbed into my tree and took a photo from a higher vantage point.

Shallow Depth of Field

I used an F-stop of 3.5 and a shutter speed of about 1/20 to isolate the strands of web from the rest of the background. The only thing I enhanced was to decrease contrast to make the lighting on the two sides of the tree less harsh.