Check out this short video that highlights 10 composition tips with example photos to make your photography more intentional and interesting.
10 Composition Tips for Better Photography
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Sometimes symmetry is not a good thing in photography or painting. One case in point is photography at the beach where the photographer attempts to line up or frame the sun, ocean, sail boats, or beach combers by placing them between two dunes, sand-catching fences, or clumps of sea oats. There is nothing left to the imagination, and the photograph’s content is too predictable. It seems to me that asymmetry or possibly the rule of thirds wins the day..,