Why should beginners pay attention to composition?

Lead: Composition is much more difficult than exposure. Although there are many formulas to choose from, the essence of photography is not to ensure that the composition is neat enough, but not to let any factors hinder your expression. So in a sense, the formula is also a constraint.

Aside from such profound vocabulary at the beginning of learning, you can't imagine a beginner picking up the violin and playing the music of others. At this stage, photography has nothing to do with art, but is closer to technology.

In any picture, you can divide all the elements into two parts: fixed and moving. The larger the proportion of the fixed part, the easier it looks, but the harder it is to impress people. Too many moving parts are difficult to control, but easy to be tricky. After an accidental coincidence is photographed by you, you will instantly feel that you are a big step closer to the master.

Some people hate Dr. Ben, others hate Bresson, but it is undeniable that one of them is good at integrating sports in silence, and the other is good at solidifying sports into silence. As far as the skills of dealing with dynamic and static elements in composition are concerned, it is absolutely master.

After determining the shooting scene, you need to quickly observe all the static scenes to see if the relationship between all the still lives meets your needs. Many seemingly dull scenes will suddenly come to life when a dynamic object appears, and there are countless such films. Shooting equipment with slow response, such as mobile phones, requires photographers to foresee the dynamic trend in the next few seconds. Foresight is not mysterious at all. All people who are called prophets have actually accumulated enough experience to foresee the coming changes.

This is a habit that needs to be cultivated for a period of time, but it is easy to go astray if it is not handled well. After establishing enough foresight, you will like to take some pictures that look particularly coincidental, but after careful analysis, you will find that such pictures are empty. You should master this tool and serve your understanding of the world in front of you, instead of being captured and enslaved by it.

Training your observation is an interesting exercise, much more interesting than controlling light and shade. You can find a child running around the street, give yourself a snapshot mark, and shoot when the child runs there. If it's a mobile phone, you will find that children often wander off, which is a problem of shutter lag, but you can cope with it after you are familiar with it. If you pick up the Leica M series film machine in the future, you will know that speed is not just a matter of shutter speed.

There are too many words about the composition rules of still pictures, so we should follow them carefully from the beginning. The only thing I want to remind you is that a completely still picture is not without motion.

The movable factor is you as a photographer.