Digital Camera World

THE BASICS

IDENTIFYING and positioning the main subject, and other focal points, in your image is at the heart of good composition. Get this wrong, and you’ll simply end up with an unbalanced, awkward and unfulfilling image that will never look quite ‘right’.

So here we’ll start with the building blocks of where to place subjects and focal points to help you get better balance, shape and distribution of

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