ABSTRACT
Andreas Feininger’s advice to photographers was to ‘explore - isolate - organise’. The sheer ease of digital photography tends to make photographers careless, shooting hundreds of potential images that will be culled later on the computer. It is far better to think beforehand and get it right at the time. Alternative angles and safety shots are fine, but saturation bombing of the subject rarely, if ever, produces a winning image. A strong photograph starts with a selection of subject for a reason. Then comes the viewpoint and technical photographic considerations, followed by the ‘linguistic’ considerations of the image, which convey its meaning in a clear and precise language to the viewer. Composition is the process that puts all these together to create a coherent visual whole.
