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Much of the pleasure and challenge of
photography lies in creating a strong composition. Setting technical
expertise aside, taking good pictures comes from developing your skills
of looking and seeing.
Accepting the challenge of photography means much more than achieving
technical perfection. An advanced camera makes it easy to take
technically perfect photographs - just as a computer lets you call up
images. But a modern camera cannot supply creative vision, any more
than software can help you create a masterpiece.
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You can learn a lot from examples - by
looking at other people's photographs and thinking about how they took
the picture and why it was successful or not. But most of all you gain
picture-making skills by combining looking and practice.
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An essential ingredient of creating
pictures with impact is composition, which means thinking about many
aspects of the picture: the viewpoint, the foreground, the background,
the shape of the picture and where to position the subject in the
frame.
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