Lesser Prairie Chicken Running - Milnesand, NM<br />
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Most photographic websites claiming to teach the masses don’t spend much time with the real basics.  They spend a lot more time on the technology side of things seemingly saying the basics are a given and aren’t really of interest to most photographers.  I think that’s unfortunate.  It also shows off in images presented on one photography forum or another.  Mostly the images there are relatively unimpressive and don’t so a lot of knowledge of the basics.  We’ll talk about the basics.  Today’s case we’ll talking about composition.  <br />
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Composition is one of those basic concepts you need for every image.  Without good compositional skills you’re images will suffer for one reasons or another.  To help prevent this, I have a few tips applicable to any photographer.  Just know one thing, if you’re an experienced artist from other media like drawing or painting, note that the compositional challenges with photography can be quite different.  I’ll get more into those details in the article.<br />
What follows are a few basic tenants anyone should consider when shooting.  As always with any set of rules, rules can be made to be broken.  To me, this is saying it’s best to break the rules when you know what rules you’re breaking.  Otherwise, you have no idea why things work for one image and not another--which is another problem about whether it’s better to know the rules vs just go out and shoot and see what happens.  I’ll talk about this at the end.  <br />
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Here we go...  the rules