From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
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Composing people
There are lots of specialized forms of photography. There is architectural photography and landscape and wildlife and macro photography, the list goes on and on. The good news is that each of those specialized forms of photography uses the same compositional building blocks and vocabulary that we're learning here. Each of those specialized forms of photography is a field of study that you can go very deeply into. But you will be doing it on top of the foundation that we've already covered. You'll be mixing and matching the same compositional ideas and adding some others to them, but you'll have a very strong foundation. Those are all far beyond the scope of this course. You are going to have to pursue those fields of study on your own. But there are two specialized forms of photography that you will probably engage in pretty regularly, portrait photography and landscape photography. And I'd like to give you some basic tips on both of those. In this movie, we are going to talk about…
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Thirds: How rectangular frames are weighted2m 20s
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Tonal balance3m 52s
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Content balance1m 20s
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Squares: Weighting the corners2m 24s
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Composing people3m 42s
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Composing landscapes3m 53s
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Sometimes you can't get the shot1m 12s
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Practicing thirds with points and geometry1m 45s
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Practicing squares with points and geometry1m 12s
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Image analysis: The work of Steve Simon13m 27s
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