Crush the Composition

Chapter 07THE POWER OF SIMPLICITY

I wasted so much time looking through my viewfinder and not liking what I was seeing and thinking to myself, “This doesn’t look great. What do I need to add to this to make this look good?” when all along I was asking myself the wrong question. What I wish I had known earlier was the problem wasn’t usually what I needed to add; it was what I needed to take away. I didn’t learn this until a photographer buddy of mine was telling me about when he had this same revelation. He told me, “Go look at the photographers you look up to. Look at their images that you love and ask yourself why you love them. Are they ...