Harold Davis: Composing Your Photographs for the Print 

Harold Davis draws on the techniques explained in his groundbreaking book Composition & Photography to drill down on the specifics needed to apply "compositional smarts" to the art and craft of fine photographic printmaking. The webinar covers topics including: how to pre-visualize your image as a print, the role printmaking plays before you capture the image, photography and two-dimensional design, making the best use of borders, choosing the right paper, and getting started with making prints.
Skip ahead:
00:30 Introduction
06:00 Key Ideas
06:28 Composition: Lines
08:25 Scootching
09:06 Composition: Circle
11:35 Composition: Patterns & Repetition
13:28 Designing within a frame
21:00 Don’t rely on color
24:51 Positive space & negative space
26:30 Questions
38:22 Composition: Entering & Exiting
39:43 Composition: Symmetry & Asummetry
40:41 Composition: Spirals & Fractals
41:37 Composition: Abstraction
42:33 Selective Sharpness
43:32 Don’t bury the lead
44:43 From transparent to reflective copy
46:20 Differences in paper finishes
49:33 Questions
55:40 Deciding print size & paper
1:03:30 Processing & printing workflow
1:06:55 Closing thoughts
1:09:45 Questions
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