Composition & Photography: Working with Photography Using Design Concepts

education-and-formation

• Composition involves practicing skills that will improve over time; it also means learning to see the world with a particular mindset related to design.

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• Lines will take you a good distance, and get you started on the important work of understanding the basics of photography as two-dimensional design.

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mind-and-cognition

• Observation is the most important. You can recognize an interesting irregular pattern when you see it. This involves understanding regular patterns, noting the deviation from regularity.

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• By 'squaring the circle,' I mean paying attention to all four corners of the composition. There needs to be a visual bridge in each of these four corners.

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• Walking through the Galleria, staring up at this cast-iron marvel, I was struck by the incredible amount of symmetry in the architecture.

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work-as-meaning

• Before you know it, the constructs of humanity have changed to that of nature, and you are within the spirals of the nautilus. The primary technical challenge was to make the transition visually seamless.

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