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hat you choose to leave out of a photograph can be as important—sometimes even more important—than what you include. This idea can apply for simply aesthetic reasons, like omitting clutter or distracting elements from the edges of the frame, but it can also be used for more intentional purposes by removing references to scale. In “The Art of explores this and other creative considerations he uses to develop images that attract and hold attention precisely because of what he has chosen to exclude from the frame. “The place, subject, lighting or weather conditions alone don’t make a great photograph,” Bennett observes. “These are just raw elements that have no extra meaning on their own. Successful images come down to the way in which the photographer intentionally organizes these elements.”