#84 - How to know when to create large compositions

My Food Lens

Is creating compositions a challenge for you?

I can totally see why.

First off, for the simple reason that composition is art. It is subjective and everyone’s style is different. So it really leaves a lot of grey area on whether a certain technique works or not.

Secondly, because composition is an art, it is tough to learn it technically. Yes, we can understand guides and placement and general rules around composition but really, we all know that creating composition is like composing music.

Thirdly, compositions are tough because there are so many choices. Any food can be photographed in infinite no. of ways.

And because the choices are so vast, it often becomes a time struggle for us. In addition to the time we spend on creating the composition, theres so much decision making that has to be done to choose a composition style for our subject, ending up in taking up more time.
What if there was a way to make that decision faster? What if you could look at a food subject and decide what composition style would suit it best? What if you could save all that time upfront?

In this week’s episode, we discuss how to know when to create large compositions.

We discuss the 3 categories of food that are worth spending the time to create elaborate compositions, how to use that to your advantage in client projects and how to work smartly to create simpler yet powerful compositions.

Creating large and elaborate compositions can be really time taking. Oftentimes we spend so much creating a composition for a subject and it doesn’t deliver our vision or look the best it could.

We are either disappointed or think that we don’t have the skills to envision the result upfront or we start over and recreate. None of these situations are preferable.

Learn a simple way of identifying which food works best for larger compositions can help save time, develop the skill of envisioning the result upfront and also position us as experts in front of clients.

Whether composition-creation is a struggle or not, here’s a simple way to work smarter with it.
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