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  1. Guest
    December 17, 2018 @ 6:25 am

    This is really a gold mine of information… Thank you so much! I am sure to be posting more across all of these post. I have been trying to understand composition for some time now, for photography, Graphic Design and Fine Art.

  2. Russell Spears
    January 6, 2014 @ 1:05 am

    This is really a gold mine of information… Thank you so much! I am sure to be posting more across all of these post. I have been trying to understand composition for some time now, for photography, Graphic Design and Fine Art.

  3. tavis
    January 8, 2014 @ 10:12 am

    Thanks for all of the support Russell, glad you are enjoying the information so far! Congrats to you for trying to understand composition which is usually not even considered by most artists.

  4. chibamonster
    January 31, 2014 @ 9:04 pm

    Great stuff! Thanks for sharing. I have a lot of questions, but you’ll probably have them answered in the other articles. Excellent job on this. I am very excited to read more.

  5. tavis
    February 1, 2014 @ 1:35 pm

    Hi Chibamonster, glad you found the site! If you don’t see the answers to your questions shoot me an email and I’ll do my best to help. Happy reading!

  6. tavis
    February 16, 2016 @ 4:18 pm

    Hi Yujin, thanks for the comment. This just means that the large diagonals and reciprocals will have more strength than the smaller ones. I guess an analogy would be this: If you took a photo of someone holding a life-size surfboard in their right hand, and a 2-inch miniature surfboard in their other hand, which one would you see first? Which one would carry more visual strength over the other? The large one. So, with photography, when you are trying to incorporate dynamic symmetry, you want to focus on big, bold diagonals and reciprocals to work with. If tiny diagonals are used then it’s not noticed as easily because it doesn’t carry the same visual strength. I hope that helps 😀

  7. Yujin Cho
    February 16, 2016 @ 5:32 pm

    Got it. Thanks!

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