What Makes a Good Composition in Photography?

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Photography is about more than just taking a photo—it’s about taking the best photo you can every time. A rubbish composition will give you a rubbish photo. A great composition will give you a great photo.

Create better compositions, and you will end up with better photos – and in this episode, I help you to do just this – what is not to love?

So, if you want to learn how to create better compositions, listen on.

In this episode, I tell you

• What is composition?
• What are the fundamentals of composition?
• Why the subject matter is so important.
• How light makes or breaks a photo.
• The other elements of a composition.
• Some things that you can do – yes, you, dear listener

I also tell you

• What if you use a phone to take photos
• What I do
• How you can ask me a question
• And a little bit about me.

All explained in plain English, without the irrelevant detail, in (much) less than 27 (ish) minutes!

What is not to love? How utterly splendid!

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Cheers from me Rick

Chapters

1. The answery bit (00:00:00)

2. Hi and welcome (00:01:03)

3. What is composition? (00:02:47)

4. What are the fundamentals of composition? (00:03:14)

5. Subject matter (00:04:19)

6. How light makes or breaks a photo (00:05:01)

7. The other elements in the composition. (00:09:48)

8. How can depth help make a great composition? (00:11:53)

9. Right - here are some things that you can do (00:13:33)

10. What do I do? (00:15:07)

11. Some thoughts from the last episode (00:15:40)

12. Next episode (00:16:03)

13. A quick plug for me and what I do. (00:16:20)

14. Get an email from me. (00:16:55)

15. Ask me a question (00:17:10)