As a serious photographer, I will always stand by the age-old phrase "composition is king.” In my view, there will never come a time when anything other than the way a photo is crafted will stand as most important.
But when I put myself in the shoes of the average person who looks at photographs online, and I consider how the vast majority of images they see are taken by a layman with a smartphone, I wonder if the scroll-stopping factor of pictures these days is how they’ve been edited rather than how well they’re composed.
