Composition,Composition,Composition!!!

In my opinion besides having the correct light metering parameters measured and making the necessary adjustments, what makes or breaks a photograph is how it is composed. Composition is vital, sometimes even more important than the subject, for it compliments it or detracts beauty from it.

A well composed photograph on a nice sized format be it film or a digital, lends it self to many editing possibilities. I have myself been able to composed two different images out of the same frame. Look at the photographs A and B below and see how important composition was in this particular example.








I was able to make two impressive shots out of the same composition simply by cropping them differently, and adjusting contrast and brightness. This is also true for editing old photographs and giving them a new twist. You can always try how a particular photograph looks in a different layout for example a panoramic can have in itself many interesting vertically composed images, and vice versa a vertical layout may posses great horizontal ones.