How to Create balanced pictures with photography composition

Thanks to the influx of purse-sized digital cameras and wads of blurry, hastily taken drunken photos posted on Facebook by partying college students, the quality of photography by the masses has gone down the deep end.

Photography, like art, requires considerate composition (including the rule of thirds) and mastery of angles and lines in order to achieve a beautiful, coherent piece.

Watch this video to learn about composition in photography through different examples.