November 5, 12 19, 2008 (Wednesday nights, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Guild)
Price for three sessions: $128.00. No refunds for classes missed.
Open to Guild members only. 

All attendees will need a 35mm SLR camera (film or digital) and a tripod. For the second and third sessions, each photographer will need to solve assignments and bring to class 4x6 prints, approximately 10, for critique.

 Class minimum: 5, Class maximum: 12

Design and Composition for Photographers is an abbreviated course for serious photographers who have achieved familiarity with their cameras, film or digital. The emphasis of the sessions is to enhance awareness of composition and to make images that are more individual and creative, less dependent on subjectness.

Session One:
- A symposium overview on composition, featuring a discussion of shape, color, line, texture, and philosophy with suggestions for technical improvement.

- The instructor will review a selection of photographs brought by the participants, using the images as compositional and technical illustrations.

- A three-part assignment will be given: producing photographs that are: (a) line dominant, (b) texture dominant, (c) color dominant. Discussion of the compositional elements of texture and line and also color theory will follow.

Session Two:
- A discussion of the importance of shapes and negative space (figure/ground theory)

- Critique of participant’s solutions (ten to twelve prints per person).

- Assignment: producing images with strong shapes and heightened negative space (figure/ground).

Session Three:
- Discussion about using the image’s frame and proportion: the square, the cropped vertical/horizontal photo. Also: diagonals, asymmetry vs. symmetry, other design elements.

- Critique of participants’ solutions (ten to twelve prints per person)

 

 

Class # LE081105