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Changing composition through retouching
From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
Changing composition through retouching
Your image editor is capable of dramatic retouchings of course, and very often when you're retouching you are mostly worried about making an edit that isn't noticeable. But you also want to think about the effect or impact on your composition of any retouching efforts that you might have. Take a look at this image. I have of course the tree backlit. It's built largely around this great shadow here. But there is a lot of balance happening here. I have got the tree and I have got this cart, or some kind of vehicle full of hay I think, and I have got this telephone pole over here. I can't tell if the telephone pole is balancing this thing or not. It's--if it isn't just a distraction, because it's a big dark line. So I am going to take it out and to be honest, I have not actually tried this edit before making this video. So it will be interesting to see. I'm as much at a loss here as you are. The important thing is as I am doing this, I want to keep track of what it does to my…
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What all good compositions have1m 8s
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Subject and background3m 5s
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Balance7m 20s
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Point of view3m 22s
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Simplicity2m 59s
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Finding and capturing a good photo2m 11s
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Working the shot: Why one is never enough6m 41s
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Practicing3m 24s
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Why black and white?2m 21s
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Exercise: Practicing the fundamentals with points4m 17s
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Lines7m 7s
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Analyzing lines6m 35s
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Exploring a town4m 7s
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The Franklin Hotel2m 7s
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Shapes10m 13s
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Repetition: Arranging the elements1m 37s
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Rule of threes1m 36s
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Perspective1m 47s
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Symmetry1m 10s
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Focal length, camera position, and depth2m 27s
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Intersections1m 41s
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Exercise: Practicing fundamentals with geometry1m 21s
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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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Choosing a photo editing tool1m 57s
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Recomposing an image with the Crop tool9m 23s
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Aspect ratio3m 39s
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Tone4m 48s
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Correcting perspective in Lightroom5m 57s
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Vignette to drive attention2m 31s
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AI and composition5m 32s
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Content-aware fill and composition4m 31s
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Depth of field and composition5m 21s
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