THE ART OF SIMPLICITY: A FOCUS ON COMPOSITION
Composition is difficult. Of that there is no doubt. Shutter speeds and aperture values can be learnt easily as they are fixed numbers in a scientific system. Even exposure, more or less, has certain parameters of acceptable values. However, with composition, all bets are off. Of course, there are patterns you can learn and apply to your early work, but you’ll quickly be producing very repetitive images if you keep following the so-called “rule of thirds”.
As you begin to outgrow simplifications such as this rule and begin to look for new ways to compose your images, it can become quite overwhelming. There are so many interpretations of classic works, books to guide you through ways to approach composition, and a cacophony of voices rattling the very foundations of the internet. If you decide to ask a photography forum, well, I hope you’re religious so you have someone to call on. You’re going to need some help. With all that said, you still want to improve and add some new tools to your repertoire. So, where do you begin?
In this article, we will come at this topic from the point of view that many compositions
