Producing those pictures is no magic trick; good photography is a science you can learn
Any image is comprised of several elements. We can group them into two broad categories: composition and subject. To the uninitiated, the two are inseparable. But if you want to create fabulous photography, you need to be able to peel them away from each other and assess them individually.
So what’s the difference between composition and subject? Look at these images below.
It’s easy to figure out the subject of these pictures: in the first, it’s an adorable little girl — my daughter, Elisheva — and the second is a bride’s wedding gown. The subjects have nothing in common. However, they do share a very similar composition. Can you spot it?
If you want to get all jargon-y about it, you can define “composition” as the underlying geometric structure of an image. Or you can skip the jargon and just think of it as the shapes and lines encoded beneath the subject.
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