Great Tips from the Focus Photo School

I recently watched an excellent video by photographer David Marx at the Focus Photo School. In the video Marx presents a great description of how composing your scene with one, two or three subjects changes the story the picture tells.

Notice how the two pictures below give a different feeling, depending on whether there is one horse and rider or two. See if you can describe the difference in a sentence to make it clear to yourself.

One horse and jockey

Two horses and two jockeys
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