Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC Lens Sample Pictures

This girl and her dog are being lit by a just-set sun. The broad, warm light from this time of the day creates pleasing portrait illumination.

Foggy mornings are great for silhouettes. In this picture, I used the grass for a solid base. The viewers eye is going to be drawn to the area of greatest contrast - which is the foreground trees. I positioned these trees about 1/3 of the way into the frame. I positioned myself so that the foreground trees did not overlap but somewhat mesh together with the more-distant trees on the left side of the frame. The ISO 1000 setting was an oversight. :)

I was trying to get the dark horse heading into the frame from the bottom left and the light horse heading into the frame from the top right. Getting both heads facing me at the same time was impossible - horses swing their heads side to side and move forward as they graze.

Skunk cabbage is one of the first green plants to show up in early spring. While this plant does not have a welcome aroma, the color of these leaves look great against the stark. For this picture, I oriented the lines in the leaf so that they angled and curved through the frame - and kept the stark background out of the frame.

Dogs (clean ones at least) are fun for kids to hug. Animals can help generate the smiles you are looking for in your kid photography.

The most-perfect leaves are often the youngest leaves. I liked the pattern and colors on this young maple leaf and how they stood out from the forest floor. I chose to keep one leaf completely in the frame and to let the mirroring leaf only partially in the frame.

When framing this tightly, a relatively long focal length will often provide the best "look" for your portrait.

A long focal length lens can capture great sunset pictures from even mediocre sunsets due to their tight framing ability. In this case, I kept the silhouetted horizon in the frame for a base.

When you are getting close to your subject with an even moderately telephoto focal length, and have a distant background, you need to be less concerned about what is in the background and more concerned about the shape and color of what is in the background. Bright grass on a slope yields a bright green base and partially-shaded trees create a darker background that surrounds the red tulip flower.

By getting down very close to the ground, I was able to create a frame around the red barn using a large pin oak tree. I felt that the pin oak tree had more character than the clear sky in this case.

Positioning the white horse fence wires so that they run through the bottom of the frame gives this barn image a different look.

You can capture many additional compsitions of a subject when you move in/zoom in and focus on the details. Here, the top of a door frame is positioned about 1/3 of the way into the frame and a hole adds some balance.

A serene scene featuring rolling green fields, hills and clouds against a blue sky.