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Basics of advanced composition

Basics of advanced composition

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Basics of advanced composition

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- I'm here in Fort Worth, Texas, and I had some time to kill, and I found this cool, abandoned flea market. Well I don't know if it's abandoned, it's just not being used, and it's full of all these colorful buildings. So I've just been walking around, seeing what I can find. And the buildings are very eye-catching, and so you want to shoot them. And so, it can be very easy to just line 'em up and shoot 'em down, here's an example. It's not much of a picture, is it? Now look at this. This is a better picture. Why? That's obvious. It's a better picture because it's better composed. Why is it better composed? That's where your answers might get a little bit tricky. You might say, "Well it's better composed just cause it is. "It's obvious, it's better composed." We can't learn much from the answer, "because it is." If you've watched my Foundations of Photography Composition course, and you need to have watched that before you watch this course, I'm really going to be building off of a lot…

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