10. Composition

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The act of determining what goes where in the image frame is called composition. Good composition is one of the keys to taking great photographs.

Composition is essentially an editing process. You decide what to leave in and what to leave out of the shot, and then where to place those things you leave in. When it comes to composition, there are no rights and wrongs, no hard-and-fast rules you must follow; a good composition is one ...

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