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RE: Photography: Struggle with composition
I like the lines in this photo, would prefer something chaotic: a pigeon, plane, breaking the somewhat sterile squares.
During one of my nightshifts I scrolled through hundreds of Cartier-Bressons photos: most pretty great, but most of them had broken "composition rules":
- cut off people and structures
- most of it not in complete focus
-etc
I only look if a photo " works" for me. If it doesn't, THEN I go back to rules and see how I would take a better photo next time.
Thanks for the thought provoking post!
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That's the thing that happens to me, if a photo doesn't "work" for me, I do delete it. I might have used a very conventional example, with straight lines and nothing moving, and I have to recognise that I subconsciously tend to "follow" the rules. But I try always to do as you say, put my intention at first, and if it works, try to apply any of the rules.
Cartier-bresson have incredible compositions and it's really inspiring. I try also to experiment with the elements in front of me and the focus, but the same problem appears again and I force myself to actually get something to the point that I burn myself too much.
Thank you very much for the comment! And I agree with you, capturing chaos in a picture is always a bit better :)