This is a tough subject. And with the intellect we've been amassing here, we may be able to generate some useful ideas about composition.
Please let's not consider this a competition [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] (you don't want to shame your moderator, do you? Let her do that on her own [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] )
But this is such vast subject, kind of like the group of blind men around the elephant, each with a different description of what the elephant is like (one describes the elephant's leg, the other his ear, the other his trunk, and still another his tusk). Each one has a part of the truth, but not the whole truth.
(I'm not calling anyone blind [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] I'm just saying that composition is a vast topic. It is very hard to put into words. Some people will say, "you either understand it or you don't." I think that kind of attitude is nonsense. . . .next they'll be saying "artistic ability. . . you either have it or you don't" Some people have been observing and drawing their surroundings or things from their imagination for years. . . and I mean, YEARS. . .so of course they do better work. Everyone can learn if they practice long enough and have sufficient insight on where to improve next [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] .
I'm going to be needing help from people here because I can pretty much guarantee I'll miss something (or many somethings on this discussion.) I like to be as accurate as I possibly can be. But let's just expect that I'll miss something and be pleasantly surprised if I actually get it right. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Just thought I'd let you know what I'm working on and have anyone interested in sharing put their thinking caps on. Hope to get this in by midnight my time which will be 5am GMT july 3rd.
Thanks,
Athena
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Hopefully I'll give y'all lots of places to spring from [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] (or at worst lots of targets to shoot at).
Athena
Our thoughts are bounded by words. The quality of those thoughts is largely determined by the words that compose them.
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