RoganJosh wrote:Are you suggesting that I should be less specific in my composing? I fell like specificity is the only thing that sets my compositions apart from the average digi-bloke.
Not at all, especially as I'm not familiar with your way of composing things!
I was suggesting that there are many components of this practice that don't need to be done "the right way up". Much of the composition, I believe, is done before you look at the GG. You see an image, and generally set up roughly where it is. From there, you look at the GG and do the technical stuff that I mentioned.
Often, I find that this is where I decide whether the shot can, in fact, be photographed in a way that I had envisaged. If I can't get certain components to technically work (dark on light, for instance), I can then work on how it could work.
This is so hard to explain in writing, but again I would suggest trying to split the aesthetic from the technical as much as possible before looking at the GG.