ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with composing the image of your subject as a picture. It deals with
recognizing and exploiting visual features of scenes and framing them up in the strongest
possible way.
Sometimes a photograph has to be composed in an instant, as some fast-changing action is
taking place, so that exactly what you include and how it looks is changing every fraction of a
second. Or your picture may be constructed quite slowly, as with a still-life shot painstakingly
built up item by item. Most photography lies somewhere between these two extremes, but
whatever the conditions there is always the need to make decisions on picture structuring.
