Composing images with your Nikon

Understanding the principles of composition can help to complement your natural eye for an image. Here is a guide to the rules and how they’re best applied

“Just by changing your own viewpoint, you can completely change the appearance of the photo” Composition is the way you organise the different elements on the scene in front of the camera. It’s tempting to imagine that the world is just the way it is, and all you can do is just turn up, point the camera and take the picture, but there’s a lot more to it than that. In the real world it’s usually not possible to move objects around to fit your ideas – but you generally don’t need to. Just by changing your own viewpoint, and sometimes the focal length of the lens you’re using, you can completely change the appearance of the photo and the objects within it. Composition in photography is like the rules…

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