Great tips, but those photos alone were worth watching.

Beautiful stuff.

These tips never really sit properly with me.. I want to know why the rule is important, perhaps contrasting it with pictures that are similar but somehow fail to meet the same standard, or maybe offset the picture slightly from it's normal alignment and show that it doesn't work as well.

When it says "use natural frames like windows and doors!" and shows a few pics of windows and doors, that's not evidence of how good windows and doors are for framing pictures, it just shows that some pictures of windows and doors are nice. Diagonals create movement? Well the first pic was of a kid running, and the second one in the snow looked perfectly still to me.

I've yet to see one of these that really sells me on the idea that composition trumps subject matter.. the pictures are always of interesting things, and whilst i'm willing to believe the composition makes it interesting, it hasn't proved that to me, and i can always find or create examples that don't work within the rule.

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It always seemed to me that these "rules" are applied retroactively, with a fair flexibility in how rules can be broken or bent. Not that I don't think there might be something to it all, but I'm just going to hazard a guess that the ability to compose a good photo comes from innate, subconscious ability forged from lots of bad photos, rather than from learning the tricks by rote.

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