Thinking about composition

Here we are out at this interesting location. It's a brisk and…breezy morning and whenever I arrive at a location I try to make sense of it.…First of course, you take it in and then you say well, how I can I…compositionally make sense of this scene? And here in this initial movie I want…to talk about composition from a conceptual perspective.…Then in the next movie we will look at how we can use composition in order to…create interesting photographs.…Now composition is really about framing.…So how do we create an interesting frame?…Because sometimes there is too much in it, there is too much clutter.…

What we can do often is say put a subject in the middle of frame. That feels nice to us,…it's easy to look at, but sometimes it's too static.…It's not very interesting.…On the other hand, we can follow a rule or a guide, the rule of thirds. …I am sure you have heard about it.…The rule of thirds is based on this ratio. It's this number Phi and what…mathematicians call this number is an irrational number.…