8. Creative Compositions

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Improve your pictures with sound compositional elements

To make a beautiful photograph, you need more than just knowledge about your camera and its settings—you should also have a good understanding of how to compose your images. Being able to create beautiful compositions is an extremely useful skill and sometimes is more important than the nitty-gritty technical aspects of photography. Just knowing one or two tricks isn’t enough, but learning several methods and piecing them together will help you to create great images. In this chapter, we will examine how you can add interest ...

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