Composition.

Do the photographers of today think about composition?

Is composition important in photography? I feel that it is, though I see an awful lot of imagery that would suggest that it is never even given a moment’s thought by many photographers. What do you think about when you look through the viewfinder? I assume that after the exposure and the focus is decided, you are thinking about where to point the camera. Does everyone do this? we have all had the experience of handing the camera or phone to a relative and then seeing that people’s heads are missing from the composition. Some people can’t even get the subject in the middle.

A composition where I deliberately had nothing in the centre.

This is the bare minimum isn’t it? to actually have your subject in the actual frame, but is it enough to have your person, or building just in the middle of the frame? Personally I find the current trend of person-stood-in-the-middle-of-frame portrait photography boring and repetitive. It might have been edgy about twenty years ago, but it is about as exciting as a product shot in a catalogue now.