Now on to one of the most important aspects of photography, shot, composition, shot composition is
the make it or break it between professionalism and amateur hour.
You can take the trip of a lifetime and tell your subject to go stand in front of a landscape so beautiful
it could be a MacBook screensaver and take a photo that even your mother wouldn't want to hang on the
fridge.
This is because it wasn't taken with proper shot composition.
So what is shot composition?
Well, first, let's start with a shot.
A shot is just a frame arranged with objects and shapes to make up a composition.
So shot composition is just arranging these objects and shapes with purpose.
Let's face it, humans are impatient creatures in the first quarter.
Second, that our eyes look at a picture, we subconsciously gather the most important parts of that
image before our brains even have time to catch up.
So when you look at an uncompromised image, your eyes take too long to find the subject, thus judging
the photo as bad.
When you look at a composed image, your eyes take less time to find the subject and gather the information,
thus saving your brain time.
Your brain likes this.
This is why learning about shot composition is so important, because it helps guide the viewer's eyes
through the image as quickly as possible.
So with that being said, here are four basic types of shot composition.
I want you to commit to memory head on in the next lesson to find out.