Chapter 10
Composition and Lighting
Composition
Most of us are inherently good at composition. It is only when we think about it too much that we stumble over the rules. If you give a child a camera and ask him or her to take a picture of the ocean, you will usually get a well-composed shot that tells a story of the ocean or the sky (there are only two elements), depending upon what strikes the child at the moment. If the horizon is placed in the center, it is a rather uninteresting shot that doesn’t have a point of view (ocean or sky). If the horizon is placed too high, so that the sky is almost out of the frame, the composi- tion becomes uncomfortable because people have a sense of psychological closure and will want the sky out of the ...
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