Photography: Advanced Composition

Composition is a lifetime study. Learn advanced techniques used by visual artists throughout history and into the modern photography era, including the basic visual elements, rule of thirds, Golden Ratio, Golden Mean, Dynamic Symmetry, Fibonacci Sequence, and more. Discuss the seminal ideas introduced by Gestalt psychology, including proximity, similarity, closure, good continuation, common fate, good form. Discover how artists before photography formed principles that modern photographers use to create sophisticated compositions of complex subjects.