The Rules of composition.
Have you ever wondered why certain photographs catch your attention and speak to you in a way that other’s just don’t, even though they may share exactly the same subject matter?
It’s more than likely that they were simply better composed.
Beginners often imagine that mastery of the technical features of their camera is crucial to taking better, more creative photographs, they ignore composition at the expense of getting the exposure absolutely perfect, but unfortunately that’s just not true.
A technically perfectly exposed photo, but so badly composed that it looks as though a tree is growing out of the subject’s head, will never look better than a badly exposed image but one which was perfectly composed, with emotional impact, in fact it’s often the imperfections in the exposure and focus that lend the final image that certain “je ne sais quoi”, and anyway, who is to say what a perfect exposure is?
Luckily for us, these rules of composition are not a product of dark sorcery, no one has to sell their soul to the Devil in a Faustian type pact to improve their photographic skills, anyone can acquire them, in fact they’ve been known about for thousands of years already, the ancient Greeks used them, as did the Italien Renaissance masters, right up to the modern Cubists and beyond.
They can be learnt in a process known as: practice.
And it doesn’t require expensive equipment to do it either, because the point of it all is to develop your photographer’s eye, and your creative mental skills, and you can do that just as well with a smart-phone.
Practice . . .
Here is a list of primers concerning the various rules of composition, they were written mainly to compliment Berlin Photography Meetup skills practice events, but the information contained within them is general, and not location specific.
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