Here are some questions to consider when you’re choosing to include or exclude lines, and deciding how to place them once they’re in your frame:

Some of the more interesting questions follow,

and take?

also strongly recommend Magnum Contact Sheets (Thames & Hudson, 2011),

Because

Some of the more interesting questions follow, though I’ve worded them in the first person because I’m hoping you’ll start asking them of yourself:

What is the light doing? What are my lines doing? Is this moment the most powerful?

Looking at the black and white rendering, I’m asking myself questions like these:

Here are the short notes on visual mass: