From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Composition

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Day four solution: Dirtying up the frame

Day four solution: Dirtying up the frame

From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Composition

Day four solution: Dirtying up the frame

- Okay, here's the day four conclusion. This was the dirty composition exercise where you're supposed to be dirtying up the front of the frame with something that normally you would think to leave out. Hopefully you had an easier time of it than I did. Honestly I don't, I think I bombed this challenge here. I'm shooting these flowers in this greenhouse. I was not limiting myself to flowers, I was trying to find anything to shoot, but these orchids are really the thing here. And it's tough, it's tough to find a foreground element that serves a compositional purpose. It's difficult finding a thing that isn't just distracting. And so I worked to try and arrange the flowers within the frame in a particular way, as you can see. Trying to fill the frame with lots of flowers, having some of them be in the foreground, some background, and the mid-ground being in focus. I switched to my 75 to 300 equivalent, because that was making it easier to compress the depth. Orchids don't grow real…

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