iPhoto 5. The Missing Manual

2. Composing Brilliant Photos

If your eyes are bleeding from the technical underbrush of Chapter 1 ” bells , whistles, megabytes ”switch 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 SLR ”and just as enjoyable.

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