Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Objects and subjects
  • Subjects and objects
Compositional techniques
  • Introducing the techniques
  • Placement - A simple compositional technique that will improve your photography
  • Placement - example and explanation
  • Separation - Apply this simple technique to really improve your photography
  • Balance - The third main technique in my trio of techniques.
  • Rule of thirds - The daddy of all the rules. Here I tell you the truth about it
  • Applying compositional techniques - How I use my three main techniques
  • Limitations of the rule of thirds part 1
  • Limitations of the rule of thirds part 2
  • Summing up with examples - An overview of everything taught so far.
  • Exercise 1
Visualization
  • Introduction to visualisation
  • How I use visualisation, part 1
  • How I use visualisation, part 2
  • Exercise 2
Compositional components
  • Geometry and lines - How to use lines in your photography
  • Geometry and lines part 2 - Examples and explanations
  • Geometry and lines part 3 - How to incorporate them naturally in your photos.
  • Symmetry - How to use symmetry to present objects in the composition.
  • Symmetry - Examples and explanations.
  • Layers part 1 - How to isolate layers to provide depth in your photographs.
  • Layers part 2 - Use visual depth and contrast to draw the viewer in.
  • People in the landscape part 1 - How the figure of a person changes an image.
  • People in the landscape part 2 - Transform a photo by including people.
  • Scale part 1 - Contrasting small against large to draw the viewer in.
  • Scale part 2 - Examples and explanations. How Scale creates visual appeal.
  • Frame within a frame part 1 - How to draw the viewers eye into the photo.
  • Frame within a frame part 2 - compose the objects around you to create a frame.
  • Frame within a frame part 3 - Use a 'frame' to push the eye into the photograph
Compositional styles
  • Compositional styles - Introduction - make the most of your creativity.
  • Compositional styles - Open landscape and closed landscape
  • Compositional styles - Detail and movement
Thankyou!
  • Thankyou
  • Bonus Lecture: Where next?