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Photography: Exploring Composition

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Photography Courses Art Composition Courses Image Editing Courses

Course Description

Overview

An illustrated guide to improving the composition of your photos and making them more powerful.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Using the challenges
1. The Four Pillars of Composition
  • Overview: What makes a successful image?
  • Composing for simplicity
  • Employing asymmetry
  • Including eye lines
  • Employing an interesting point of view
  • Challenge: Which photo is more effective, and why?
  • Solution
2. Composing While You're Shooting
  • How to see like your camera does
  • Capturing the essence
  • Matching orientation to composition
  • Separation techniques
  • Positioning key elements in the frame
  • Working a shot over time
  • Making room for type
  • Establishing a composition workflow
  • Challenge: Compose a landscape for an 8.5x11 magazine cover
  • Solution
3. Improving Composition by Cropping
  • Cropping for rotation, input and output orientations, and ratios
  • Cropping for simplicity
  • Cropping for orientation
  • Cropping to enhance asymmetry
  • Challenge: Crop these photos to improve composition
  • Solution
4. Improving Composition Through Image Editing
  • Adjusting brightness and contrast to enhance focal points and separation
  • Dodging and burning to enhance separation
  • Blurring to improve focus on a key image element
  • Removing unwanted elements through retouching
  • Creating your composite
  • Converting to black-and-white
5. Putting It All Together: Critiquing Your Work
  • The value of a photo critique
  • The critiquing process
  • Performing a basic composition critique
  • Performing a complete composition critique
  • Acting on a critique
  • Challenge: Critique this photo
  • Solution
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Taz Tally

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