If you're sick and tired of the basic techniques guiding your compositions, like the rule of thirds and leading lines, then you're in the right place. Composition is far more elaborate than placing your subject on a cross hair, or leading a straight line to them.
If you're a huge fan of the rule of thirds, no worries...I was too! I was using it in every shot, but it never helped my compositions. In fact, it made me create similar compositions every time; compositions that looked like everyone else'. I set out to find the most powerful design techniques, and find them I did! That's what I teach, to help thriving photographers push past their plateau.
My name is Tavis and I'm a fine art photographer, author, blogger, and educator of composition techniques, Gestalt psychology principles (visual perception) and dynamic symmetry.
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Just a note to the gypsy in handcuffs. That day he killed a woman. That’s why he is in handcuffs. It was a crime of passion. You can read about it in Koudelka’s book “Josef Koudelka Next” written by Melissa Harris
@@rezaVfx thank you! Not anything specific for architecture for video, but I’ve analyzed some architecture in articles on the site, and have had architectural students take the content and apply it to their work.
4:20 My logic on why they dressed the set with more green and less red was to probably make the red stand out greater against a wash of neutral tones in a ‘less is more’ situation since Jack’s madness is mounting alongside audience anxiety. I don’t think Kubrik was really harmonizing a color pallet, he focused far more (imo) on evoking emotion, whether its conscious to the viewer or not.
2 guys that didn’t know SHIT about photography. I worked for both. Fashion is all about who you know, not what you know. When experts do all the work, Anyone can push the button a few Hundred times and get an image!
Not sure why the emphasis on the typography, if we're reviewing the imagery. The reason I say that is because Vogue editorial staff is responsible for what that cover page looks like. They design the layout and the typography used. Annie would've just provided the cover image, and wouldn't have input on that final print.
Hello Tavis, I just purchased your grid package, and I'm a bit confused about what I should do next. Specifically, I'm unsure which grid to print and what to ask the printer. I have a Fujifilm X-T3 camera with the following LCD screen specs: Type: 3.0-inch touchscreen LCD Resolution: Approximately 1.04 million dots Aspect Ratio: 3:2 Can you please guide me through the process? Best regards,
Thanks for the support, I appreciate that! There is a folder for the 3” lcd. So if you’re wanting it on your LCD, you will need transparency film. Print a test sheet, cut it out and use double sided tape to place it on your screen. For printer settings be sure not to resize the image for printing. Some printer dialogs have a box that you check that reads “shrink to printable area” or something similar. Be sure to uncheck that box if there is one. Otherwise it may shrink the grid a little. You can test it on a normal piece of paper so you don’t waste the transparency film. Hope that helps, let me know if you need anything else😄
Hello Tavis, Thank you for your work. I follow your content closely and am a subscriber. I have a question regarding videography with my APS-C camera. I would like to add a grid to the back of my LCD screen to aid in composition. Could you please advise on the basic grid, aspect ratio, and settings an amateur like myself should use? Thank you
Thanks for the support! Most cinematic modes in cameras will be a root 3 grid. I would start with the basic root 3 grid. If you’re wanting a longer cinematic ratio you could use a root 6 grid. I have all of these grids designed and ready to print for most camera lcds today. Check out the website if you’re interested, or you could measure your lcd and design it in photoshop, then print it on transparency film😄 ipoxstudios.com/product/dynamic-symmetry-grid-package/
All these readings about “powers that be” make me feel like leave things the way they are. There’s no point in fighting power just get yours and keep it pushing 🤷🏾♀️😂
Where do you learn all these techniques and their names, like Gamut and Arabesque, never heard of that. Is there a core book or site? I can't find anything about a gamut anywhere.
Thanks for watching! Please check my site, I’ve dedicated it to composition and design techniques for 10 years and have several articles and books on there that cover everything 😄
This is sooooo helpful. Especially for an overthinking amateur painter like me. Gives me some direction (no pun intended) of where to paint. Also noticed this in some of me earlier work
The "Fat over Lean" / "Thick over Thin" when it comes to layering with paint @ 07:00 made me think of layering an image in photography - will keep that saying "Fat over Lean" in mind when composing images (I know for paint you are speaking of drying times... For photography I was thinking of it as Subject over Noise/non-subject for compositions) Always enlightening content, very cool!
I disagree @ 10:46. Her body overlapping with the structure looks great and natural. Morphing the subject with the environment in a tasteful and geometric way.
I'm a photographer and love your channel, however, I have to pick a few holes in your theory here. Afghan Girl was published by National Geographic in June addition in 1985. I use both PhotoShop and LightRoom but neither was around in 1985. in fact, PhotoShop was not launched until Fed 1990, Steve McCurry used a Nikon FM2 35mm film camera to shoot Afgan Girl so any photo manipulation had to be done in the darkroom. And to my knowledge, the kind of manipulation you are talking about has only become available in recent years. So I can't speak for his later work but I certainly don't think Afgan Girl had any heavy manipulation. Steve McCurry did not start using digital cameras till 2005 prior to that he was shooting color slide film
