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Practicing thirds with points and geometry
From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
Practicing thirds with points and geometry
You've probably spent most, if not all of your photographic life working with a rectangular frame. That means there's a good chance that you already have a feel for working with thirds, even if you never knew that that's what you were doing or didn't have any idea about the theory of thirds. Now that you do, now that we've looked at thirds, now we've analyzed it some and looked at some examples, I'd like you to go out and practice composing with thirds. Practice balancing the frame by dividing it into three equal parts, and seeing how you can place elements in different places to get a good balanced composition. Because you do have some vocabulary to put to this idea now, you might learn some things or identify some things or get a deeper feeling for things than what you had when you were maybe just winging it based on experience. Now, your camera may have the ability to display a grid in the viewfinder that shows the frame evenly divided into thirds. If I were you I'd turn that off…
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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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