The Secret to Good Composition

“Think of your subject as a single frame in life’s epic motion picture. The Earth spins, the weather changes, and life moves around you like a dance. ‘Anticipating composition’ means selecting one important moment from that ebb and flow–what photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson called the ‘decisive moment.’ The act of catching life at its most revealing is the secret of selecting, and thus creating, good composition.” – National Geographic Book, Complete Photography