make your photos speak

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music.
If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them.
Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

• There are formal rules of composition in art. These rules apply to all forms of art. A good photographer will learn these rules and learn when to apply which rule.

• However, a good artist learns to know when to break the rules. Sometimes an unusual composition says more than a composition that follows the rules.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge;
each line adds strength and takes none away…
Making lines run into each other is not composition.
There must be motive for the connection.
Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
Robert Henri