Friday, September 26, 2008

On Composing

Composing pictures seems like such an easy thing. Take your camera, raise it to your eye, frame a shot and then snap a picture. Yet it is possible for two photographers to take similar vantage points of a single scene, and still generate two completely different compositions. In fact, it is often that one photographer captures an exposure that's popularly deemed as significantly better than the other's!

Composing a shot is something that comes with the experience of knowing what works and what doesn't. For some, that means shooting with a long lens and pulling nice shots out every single time. For others, it is with a wide. Perhaps the higher goal is to be able to pick up any lens, and make every hit count.

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