If you want to be able to take funny pictures but good ones and wonder if there is a special technique to it. Funny pictures tell a wonderful tale when viewed by an appreciative audience. So what do you need to know to make your funny pictures turn out to be ones that people want to see again and again?

Taking pictures is about angles, framing, the placement of points of interest, colors and contrast. Sounds like a tall order doesn't it? But if you break things down into steps, its much easier. Getting the right look to your funny pictures will put YOUR shots a head and shoulders above everyone elses.

What do you need to know? The first thing is understand something called the rule of thirds. Artists and other photographers use this as their constant guideline. Now this will sound a little strange, but what you really need to do is to off center your funny pictures. Not to make them funny pictures because they are off center, but to make them interesting and provocative.

Here's how you imagine it. Hold up your camera to the scene you want to capture and now, imagine the # sign over the lens. Focus on your shot and put the main focal point of the shot at one of the intersections of the pound sign NOT in the middle. While the main focus of your shot will be off center, the actual photo will show way more than you realize. You can do this with horizons too by the way. Put the horizon either really low or high, not in the middle. Off centering is one of the golden keys to good funny pictures.

Now, a word about heights and angles! This more than anything you can do with your photography will make a mediocre snapshot into something quite spectacular. First choose a vantage point that suits the subject. Say the funny picture you want to take is a clown getting hit in the face with a pie. If you want to really get the point across about the "Splat" effect of the pie hitting the clowns face, then take a close up shot of it just when it is about to hit to capture the expression of the clown and the flying whipping cream. You get the idea.

Other things you can do to alter how your photo looks are to lie or crouch in front of your subject object, climb above it if possible, angle right or angle left or even try having the camera on the ground. If you want good funny pictures, try experimenting with your medium of shooting.

You'd be amazed what you can actually come up with.

The other thing you have to pay attention to is the composition of your funny pictures. There are actually four ways to do this. The first one is to pay close attention to the relationship between your objects subjects in the picture. If you want your funny pictures to be appealing, you have to have something in those pictures that piques a person's visual interest. Something different, unique, eye-catching! Like a small dog about to take a large bite out of the back end of the clown about to get splatted with a pie in the face! Remember you are shooting the appearances of your subject/object, not the actual object. You want the appearance of the clown etc to tell your story. You want the clown to have a sense of humor and be ready for the splat the picture is not about the splat itself.

Pay attention to the lighting. Light on dark and dark on light. If things are too dark the object/subject of your funny pictures will not be seen. This observation also applies to having too much light as well. Clean up any clutter in your photos before taking that super shot.Who needs to see your office desk behind your cat if the main story is your cat, and not your lousy filing. Anything that distracts from the scene you want the viewer to see kills the story of the photograph. Happy snapping!