It really depends on the photo.  The classic pano shot of one person on a massive wet beach with the reflection in the wet sand is not going to look good with them looking at the camera standing in the middle of a 3:2 shot... or it might... (edit to add: picture the Yamamura Sadako child from the film The Ring, stood in the middle of such a frame staring at the camera and the impact would be more intense than if she were stood looking at you from the side) Composition can affect the "feel" of the shot. I'm not sure if orientation of the subject would count towards composition but what if that person was still in the middle of the frame but walking to one side... is it not pleasing to see them walking "into" the frame or "out" of the frame, rather than just in the middle.  Staring at the camera in the middle of a shot conveys a completely different image to walking out of the shot, and maybe even stood on one of the vertical thirds.  The subject and "photo" are the same, but a change in composition has an effect on the viewer.

I'm digging myself into a quagmire here, but i'm trying to say that it really does depend on what you are looking at whether the "composition" is good.  There is no composition which applies universally, and when i use the phrase "nice composition" or the like in a gallery comment i am taking the photo as a whole into account.  Because a composition may well be good but it might not fit the shot.

Geert - makes sense to me, especially taking your work into account.

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