Chapter 18

Odd Number Of Elements

Having an odd number of picture elements in your photograph
is an old compositional device. This compositional rule is used
extensively today just as it was in the 19th century by the
painters, suggesting that, often, having three, or any other odd
number of your picture elements, as in these photos of the three
red flowers, brings an interest to the otherwise uninteresting,
and sometimes boring composition. Three Hasidim, or a lonely
prayer praying at the Wailing Wall make these photos'
compositions much stronger than if they have not had an odd
number of the pictures' elements in them.