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Getting composed

Getting composed

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Getting composed

- At the end of the last chapter, I included a video called The Nuts and Bolts of Aesthetics, and I demonstrated nine important concepts of aesthetics, using three rusty bolts, and a handful of shiny steel nuts. And guess what? It's time for you to give both these concepts and your scanner a little test drive, and the instructions are simple. Start by grabbing a subject, it could be like a smallish, favorite thing, from off a shelf or inside a drawer, or something from out in the yard. Or it could be something meaningful like a favorite watch, or something as mundane as a stapler. It's your call entirely. I'm going with a little jester head that I picked up at a thrift store a while back, and this little fellow, he debuted in one of my photo books, whole bunch of years ago, and he also shows up in my photography course that's available right here. Okay, next, grab some visual filler that you can use along with your main subject. And in choosing this stuff, think along the lines of…

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