One of the most essential elements in your photographs are the shapes you choose to include. You can make your photograph’s focal point stand out by placing it against an uncluttered background, like the sky. If you are unable to do this, just make sure that your subject or shape is very powerful, otherwise it will become lost. Here are a few photos I took today with shape in mind.
It’s not very difficult to see why I chose this building for this project. I only took a few photos at this location though, because “Security” had to kindly ask me to leave : /

Here’s the same building, but from another more abstract angle.

I really liked this one, so I tried it in black and white. The key to black and white though, is to make sure you have enough contrast around your edges. One technique you can use is the “burn” tool to achieve defined edges in a black and white photograph, which I’ll probably demonstrate in a upcoming tutorial.

Knobs on a historic fire truck.

I used the vintage truck shape as a focal point, which also leads your eye toward the girl on the bike.

Bicycles parked at a bike shop.

Hope you enjoyed my shape photography!