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Composition - Seeing Pictures

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This course uses group discussion and review of project work undertaken by students during the course.

Part 1: Introduction and course overview, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fibonacci, Golden Ratio, Rule of Thirds, Lines, Frames

Part 2: Review of students projects, Sebastiao Salgado, patterns and repetition, light, high key and low key,

Part 3: Review of students projects, Martin Parr, colour, effects of colour, colour wheel, colour harmony, colour perception, colour balance, colour saturation

Part 4: Review of students projects, Bill Brandt, tonal range, tone theory, depth, balance, angle of view

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"Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything." Leonard Misonne