No, I think everyone always interprets composition. That's why directors labor over it in the first place. Regardless of how consciously tuned in or trained in the visual language any particular viewer is.
I just made that little j to point out the absurdity of picking apart progress pics like this. Of course every shot is deliberately planned. Perhaps progress pics doubly so. But that idea can be a tarpit. The thin edge of the wedge where we forget the intent of two progress pics taken at the gym is the same, the only deliberate difference is the physique, every other difference is incidental.
I just made that little j to point out the absurdity of picking apart progress pics like this. Of course every shot is deliberately planned. Perhaps progress pics doubly so. But that idea can be a tarpit. The thin edge of the wedge where we forget the intent of two progress pics taken at the gym is the same, the only deliberate difference is the physique, every other difference is incidental.