Why Composition Matters?

Composition could be seen merely as the arrangement of elements that construct a creation, our it could be seen as the very soul of any body of work. It doesn’t matter if you have a romantic way of seeing stuff or not, the important thing here is that you understand why composition matters, and why it should be your prime learning concern instead of deciding which camera or lens you should buy.

When is started studying photography, I was the only student with a Point and Shoot camera, and my teacher made a very wise move. He didn’t ask me to buy a big DSLR like the ones my peers had. What he did was something I’ll thank him for the rest of my life, and is something I’m doing with my students in my classes nowadays. He told me to stick to my small camera, and to study composition, just composition, and then I could worry about aperture and stuff.

He made me see in a way the other students weren’t seeing because they were dealing with so much information about exposure metering, that they didn’t have neurons to think about what was going on inside their frames.

Photography is a Lie

Wait, what? Really? How dare you? Well, that’s how some great thinkers of our days have called it sometimes. And if you think about it, it is true that photography is a lie, because it is a rendered image of reality, in a two dimensional format. Our…