Chapter 2. Composing Brilliant Photos

If your eyes are bleeding from the technical underbrush of Chapter 1bells, whistles, megabytesswitch on your right brain. This chapter has little to do with electronics and everything to do with the more artful side of photography: composition.

What follows are four tips that photographers have been using for years to create good pictures regardless of the camera type. These time-honored secrets do wonderful things for digital imaging too. Good composition is just as important with a $199 digicam as it is with a $3,000 pro digital SLRand just as enjoyable.

This chapter offers suggestions that will immediately improve your pictures. But first, a few words about composition itself.