8. Creative Compositions
Improving Your Pictures with Sound Compositional Elements
Creating good compositions involves more than always using the rule of thirds. It’s a way of thinking that allows you to build photographs where you control the viewer’s experience of the image. Composition is about understanding how people look at an image and how you can use those things to your advantage. In this chapter, I explain what those things are and how they can dramatically improve your photographs.
Poring Over the Picture
Being aware of what draws the human eye can allow you to make photographs of the most common and mundane objects, including a table ...
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