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Recognizing good composition

Recognizing good composition

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Recognizing good composition

- One of the things that we've been talking about a lot in this course is that you can train your eye to recognize good composition, and that the types of images you spend a lot of time looking at really inform the way you shoot. So I think it's very interesting that after years of working with shadows that's really informed the way you shoot out in the rest of the world. You were going to put this hat on this guy. - Right. Should we, should I do that? - Yeah. - Mkay. So I've built this kind of wonderful concoction here. - I don't know if you can see this has got lots of little wires hanging from these various booms that she set up. - My intention is for it to lean forward. - So you've got a lot of variables you're working with when you're positioning these things. There's a kind of geometric positioning of them to get them pointed the that way you want, but also they're going to be sharper or softer depending on how close they are to the light. And then, it looks like they also get…

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