I have read about two compositional techniques in photography and even though the golden mean rule sounds more complicated they both seem to have the points of interest placed in the same place. What is the actual difference?
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Most of them were taken with a macro lens. External light sources were used to create backlighting effects and beautiful bokeh.
Photoshop would have been used for colour correction, contrast adjust and cropping/touchup.

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