Light and shadow become integral parts of composition when skillfully incorporated, and should be your first consideration before setting up to make a photograph. When lighting conditions have been evaluated and the camera

Theme, emphasis, simplicity. All three things help to focus the attention on the subject. The subject is what the photographer intended to take a picture of, right? So now that the photographer knows

When looking at a picture, there exists an unconscious action in the viewer's mind to divide the space in half; to want the visual object's to find balance much the same way equal

Perspective refers to the relationship of imaged objects in a photograph. This includes their relative positions and sizes and the space between them. In other words, perspective in the composition of a photograph

Loosely related to the rule of thirds is the Golden Ratio also referenced to the Golden Rectangle. Mathematicians seem to love to apply numbers to what seemingly could or should not have numbers