The art of composition

IMPROVE YOUR IMAGES BY DISCOVERING ALL OF THE ESSENTIAL TRICKS, TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS YOU NEED TO ENSURE YOU GET THE COMPOSITION RIGHT EVERY TIME

HAVE YOU EVER wondered why some pictures just look ‘right’, while others don’t? The answer lies in composition, which relates to the positioning and relationships between areas and focal points in the subject you are shooting. Understanding how composition works is the single most important thing you need to know to improve your images.

Composition is a combination of art, a little bit of science, and a significant sprinkling of ‘gut feeling’. In these six pages, you’ll discover all of the rules and techniques that you need to improve your composition skills, how to use them and how they affect your images.

While we can’t teach you the ‘gut feeling’, simply getting out there and using these composition techniques will help you discover which ones work for you and the subject that you are shooting. Even if you already instinctively ‘know’ when an image looks right, learning about the rules of composition will only add to your skills and help you to create more dynamic and striking images in the future.