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Long before you put paint to paper...before you put pencil to paper...probably before you take a photo, at the earliest moment when a subject catches your eye, that's when you begin to see the subject in the context of a composition.  It should be the first or close to the first thing you think about as an artist.  Once a subject intrigues me, I use my camera to arrange the composition as best as I can with the subject before me.  I frame the main area, zooming in and out, trying both vertical and horizontal formats, until I have several possible [...]