Composition in photography – 10 crucial concepts

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Composition – how you select and arrange the various elements within an image – makes all the difference in photography. This clip explores 10 compositional concepts that will lift your photography to another level.

This is Tom Greenwood from sydneyportraits.com.au and greenwoodmedia.com.au

Composition is a huge part of photography. People who say they can’t take a photo to save their lives are usually saying “I don’t know how to compose a good shot”.

So what is composition? Put simply, it’s how you select and arrange the various elements within the image. Of course it doesn’t just apply to photography – also painting, drawing, film, any kind of visual medium.

In this clip we’ll look at 10 compositional ideas or concepts. During a shoot I generally try to use as many of these as possible to ensure a really dynamic range of shots.

5 Comments
  1. srlkngl says

    so glad you’re back… thank you!!

  2. Bastien Oswald says

    Excellent !

  3. Pacific Ways says

    which camera is better Canon 200d or Nikkon D5600 for both video and phto plz say

  4. Rakesh Kayastha says

    Hello Sir,what a helpful and important video for us beginners.Thank you a lot and please keep posting more videos for the beginners when you have time of course.I am really happy to see your new video after a long long time and i thoroughly enjoyed it and found it very helpful as i said before.Namaste from kathmandu Nepal

  5. zzz zzz says

    Native people and places in your pictures are beautiful
    Very nice post

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