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CLASSIC COMPOSITIONAL APPROACHES

ince the dawn of photography artists have been experimenting with different compositions. Over the past few centuries, however, we’ve come to accept some basic fundamental rules that you can employ if you’re struggling to get a decent composition of the scene in front of you. Many of these compositional tricks have been borrowed from other visual mediums, like paintings or drawings, and are seen as easily transferable

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