From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture

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Photo review: Composition examples

Photo review: Composition examples

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Photo review: Composition examples

In the next couple of movies we're going to look at two different sets of photographs and discuss how we can work with composition in order to communicate something different. So here in this first movie, we will go ahead and turn off the lights and we are going to look at a slideshow of photographs. Now these photographs are portraits I captured of Shawn Stussy. Shawn is a really fascinating person, an amazing artist. Well I am going to start off by taking a look at him in his studio. So go ahead and take a look at this first image and here you can see him surrounded by some of his tools on a workbench and he is constantly creating. I started off depicting Shawn inside window light and I like this, but I wanted to create images that were a little bit more simple. I wanted to do something that had a bit more of an edge to it. We're right in front of his studio is a concrete wall and a concrete driveway. Now visually it's not very interesting. But I knew that it would allow for some…

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