After posting this article in response to the previous post about composition, I was asked if I had any other links.
As a disclaimer, I don’t necessarily endorse these but over the years I’ve taken from them the parts that resonated.
Feel free to do the same and I hope you get as much from them as I have.
A post by Andrew S. Gibson which talks about gesture and punctuation.
Ken Rockwell gets a lot of stick but he’s a great resource if you don’t take him too seriously. His page on composition.
I feel I’m missing some, I’ll add them if I can find them.
We’re on the same page! Again it was a really interesting article with lots of valuable info, I definitely learned a thing or two and I’ve been composing frames for a long time. I’m going to read the other ones you posted soon. As for cropping, it’s an inevitable reality when it comes to some jobs with high volumes. The author does fine art where I actually agree that getting your composition perfect in camera is the best, but it was unnecessarily partisan, like an Xbox vs Playstation vibe.
Ha, yeah that’s fair. I’m probably overly pragmatic, engineer mindset!