From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
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Simplicity
Check out this cool car here. It's got grass growing around it. The light is fading on it. It's very atmospheric. I want to take a picture. Here we go. That's not much of a picture is it. Why? Well, because that's not just a picture of the car. What's the sky for? What's the road in here for? What's the fence in here for? I've got all this extra stuff. I need to simplify. Simplicity is one of the hallmarks of a good image. I'm going to go in closer here, and bang, I get this. Okay this is a simpler image, but I've got all those trees behind. The trees don't serve any function, so I am going to move over here. Again, I am working very quickly because the sun is going down very fast, and it's not going to long much longer. Okay, here is this one and this one, I'm too far away again, and now I've got that telephone pole back there. That's no good. So I am going to come in closer, real close, and I want to try and hide that telephone pole behind the car. I really like this brick right in…
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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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