From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
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Final thoughts
From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
Final thoughts
We've reached the end of this course, but you are far from the end of your education and understanding of composition. That will continue for as long as you keep shooting. These compositional building blocks that we've been working with, you will continue to find new depths to those and new ways of combining and working with those. I would also like you to think about the exercises we've done, not as something that you have completed, but as something that you can return to, for two reasons. One, there're still more to learn from those exercises. You can always go back to them and plum the depths a little bit deeper. But you can also use those exercises for times when you're feeling stuck. If you're bored with what you are shooting, if you're feeling like you're not seeing anything, if you're feeling like you always compose things the same way, go back to these very basic exercises and work through them again. They may get your sense of seeing…
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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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