Reddit reviews Sam Abell: The Photographic Life

This is going to be a bit more story like.

Weegee was a photographer in the 30's and 40's. He was known for being the first photographer on the scene for crime scenes. He was the only civilian with a NYPD radio in his car.

But, he took some photos with interesting compositions. This one is fairly famous - an obviously altered scene. Or was it? Another photo (NSFW) that was most likely staged. Specifically it amuses me that for a 'photo never lies', he'd alter the composition of his photos. Maybe there's something in your art that could be added artificially to make it more fun.

Be forewarned if you look up the work of Weegee that there's a lot of blood & gore as he was a crime photographer.

Sam Abell is a National Geographic photographer. This book is fantastic. If you can find a copy, look through it - it shows his famous photos and the before shots while he was figuring them out. This shot is fun as the 'fallen tree' is actually just a small branch. Think about different ways you could compose your scene - maybe something's larger or smaller than it actually is.

Keene Wilson is an artist who seems to largely do water colors. This blog post goes through redoing the same painting a few times, iterating through slightly different choices, altering his composition. This blog post goes into a lot more detail about editing out things that will probably just clutter your design. Remember, your composition is what you want to display to the world - it doesn't have to be what's actually there.