Landscape Composition – Part 5: Separation of Elements

So far in this series, I’ve talked about compositional elements, their weights and how to use their properties to balance the composition by imagining a balance of torques around the middle axis of an image. I also discussed balancing of negative space, the perception of subject direction and the lead room given to match this direction. .

I ended the last article with the image below, and asked the readers to guess what I dislike about it.

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