Composition
Structuring Your Image to Communicate about a Landscape
communicate about a LandScape
A lot of things have been written and discussed about composition for as
long as people have made pictures, way before photography. Composition
is simply about the organization of an image within the image frame, from
edge to edge, but exactly how you organize a photo is not so simple.Ultimately, composition is about communication. What you include in
your photo, what you exclude, and how you arrange what’s in the frame
tell a viewer what you think is important about a landscape.In this chapter, I cover many possibilities for composition. You’ll learn why
it’s so important to get things out of the middle, as well as when the
rule of thirds helps (and when it doesn’t). You’ll learn about foregrounds
and backgrounds, the importance of edges, and what to watch out for
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