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.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qi-UVeZBNIDWZdQtDV_6h0mFDA213WH-K0XWDkzrPaTTVTZfWPpQ4lUJi9kpZebL5sNRHE1AidpeT_nQOBCKsfJXCI8bdq2vyN1fGGLwrDZZVk_UoY6O7J3CJko4vhnEkoML/s400/KEyster-0605.jpg) |
One horse and jockey |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3upyjawLb76mWgW0AU8kizEnNInvJJAfsBd22nzg61x3Kwh6ngc6BQnQRvuCAbrExH0aMp1r82dh3_ze4zjXc5JijiPyh4JTFrXguLeB5JI652G2oq8r_JHJHzYdna7ylAvBn/s400/KEyster-0626.jpg) |
Two horses and two jockeys |
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