how to compose a picture
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Format means whether a picture is portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal).
Portrait
Landscape
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The perspective of a photo is the angle in which it is taken – eye-level, from below, bird’s-eye view, etc.
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Foreground interest is when your main focus is in the foreground of the picture with another object in the background.
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In this photo, the lines of the corridor and the banister converge into a point.
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Here, the gaps in the bench form lines that travel towards the bag.
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The balance here is between the tall building on the right and the sky on the left.
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Here, the subject is on the border between two thirds.
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In this picture, the green background is bare, letting the bag attract the eye. The background isn’t cluttered, meaning the subject isn’t fighting for attention.
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The woman here is framed by the wooden post and the bin, while in the photo below, Louise is framed by the table legs.