52 Clicks | Week 4 | Micro-composition

We ended our first month in the Project 52 with micro-composition. This is an advanced concept that was brand new for most of us, and it certainly cannot be mastered in a single week. We all struggled to wrap our brains around exactly what it is. When broken down into its most basic parts, micro-composition is composing your image with the utmost care of all the details and how they interact with one another to create the larger scene. It is a technique we often use on some level without realizing it. When we intentionally use elements in a scene, or when we craftily arrange our subjects, or when we move around to get the perfect perspective, etc. These are ways in which we unconsciously use micro-composition. 

It becomes trickier when we are actively engaging these concepts because our minds tend to flick over to overthinking mode. Our biggest takeaway all week was to focus on the attempt and not the end results. We may miss the mark just a little as we go out and try new things, but we will never learn new things if we don't at least try them. Sometimes we learn the most when we try and then fail and then try again.

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xoxo,
Angie Mahlke