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| We hope in this section to help everyone to compose better pictures,
but especially the person who has no idea of composition - the photographer
for whom taking a picture means just picking up a camera to point it and
shoot it with little thought for the arrangement of the elements in a
scene. Such a person would rarely be pleased with the results of his or
her normal photography, and could benefit enormously from an understanding
of the elements of composition.
Anyone who has an interest in improving their pictures would do well to go through this section and use the tips and hints it contains in their photography to see if their pictures improve. By religiously observing the principles of composition, they will become firmly cemented in your mind. Employing them will become second nature to you. If you don’t find there is an improvement in your pictures and people aren’t commenting on how great they look, we will be greatly surprised. Once you have the rules of composition down pat, experiment and break a rule here or there when you feel the image will work better without it. That’s called individual style, and the creativity that stems from it produces some great images. The point is that you will know when to break a rule of composition once you know what the rules are and how they work. |