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THE PICTURE WINDOW AND ITS FORMAT
In the first chapter, we learned about the importance of converting nature’s complexity into simplified and more visually concise shapes. Now, we turn our attention toward how those shapes are placed and arranged within our picture—otherwise known as composition.
The natural world is so vast and all-inclusive that it would be impossible to compose a landscape without limiting what we take in. The first act of composition, then, is to consider the rectangular paper or canvas that surrounds our subject—the picture window. How we position the window around our subject tells us what will be included in our composition and what will be left out. What small portion of the world will become the subject of ...
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