The following four photos are all examples of good composition. The seven principles of design are balance, variety, repetition, dominance, proportion, movement and unity. The four that I have chosen to showcase are balance, repetition, dominance and movement.

First, this a great example of the dominance principal. By everyday definition, dominance means to be in charge or take power. In the world of art, the dominance principle would be a piece of art with one large or "powerful" object/figure that takes up the majority of the available space. Here, the leaf draws your focus and most of the available space.

This is a great picture that demonstrates balance. More specifically this photograph shows asymmetrical balance because the weight of the tree branches are "equal" on both the left and right side.

Above, is a piece of art that demonstrates movement. The wooded path draws your eye around the "bend" because of the consistent colors and lines of the path.

This last photo demonstrates repetition. Although repetition can be portrayed with a repeating, line and color, this photo has a repeating shape, the leaves.