Overview
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Train your eye to find better compositions. Learn the theory, practice, and art of photographic composition by analyzing the work of professional photographers.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Basics of advanced composition
- Using your sixth sense for composition
- What you need to know about advanced composition
- Best practice: Looking for interesting scenes
- What makes a good subject
- Learning photography through analogue abstraction
- Reviewing the works of photographers who shoot abstract
- Looking at recognizable abstractions
- Looking at a case study by George Byrne
- Introducing Susan Kae Grant
- Composing a scene for a photograph
- Placing objects in a scene to create a composition
- Recognizing good composition
- Reviewing the portfolio of a composition expert
- Composing around light
- Potential light compositions
- Composing around geometry
- Composing around things
- Exploring point of view
- Layers: Foreground and background
- Exploring the ways a composition can be shaped
- Abstracting your house
- Semi-abstraction
- Reflections
- Self-analysis
- Next steps
