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Composition, lighting, and focus are all very important when dealing in photography. You can control the lighting of the picture to your liking, so you can take the perfect picture. Focus is what you're camera is focused on. For example, if you wanted to take a picture of a tree, you'd want your camera to be focused on the tree. Composition is just the way you guide the viewer's eyes to more important things in your artwork.

Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that give an image judged by your camera's focus. It's important to know this because you need to know what you want to focus on in the picture and what will all be in the picture.

The exposure triangle brings all 3 of the exposure elements together. Aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. It's important to know what these are to take high quality photos.

5 compositional techniques are as following: Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, Symmetry, Pattern, and Framing. All of these are very important because they all can help you take many differently types of photos and make basic photos look like master pieces.

Natural lighting techniques are using things like the sun, shadows, and moon to your advantage. Artificial ones are pretty much any light using electricity. You would use artificial when taking something like a family photo and natural when taking a picture of something like the sunset.

We mainly use natural lighting sources for our photos because they just give the picture a better look.