Outstanding Composition: How to blow away your audience

Name: Outstanding Composition: How to blow away your audience
Rating: 4.3 (1427 reviews)

Learn how to impress your followers with perfectly composed photographs which stand out in the crowd on every platform.

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(1,427 ratings)

27,338 students

Created by Thomas Leuthard

Last updated 2/2015

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What you'll learn

know what makes a good photograph
know why a photograph doesn't work
know how to simplify a photograph
start seeing in a different way
differentiate between different composition rules and techniques
be more creative through different composition techniques
improve your portfolio by making more creative photographs

Requirements

Know your camera
Know the basics of photography
Know the dependence between aperture, shutter and ISO

Description

This course shows in depth how composition should be done and why some photos work or others don't. Thomas shows several composition elements which helps you improve your photos from scratch. After this course you will look at the world with different eyes and will make your photos in a more creative way.

You will learn...

...what the golden ratio, the rule of third and the Fibonacci Spiral are
...why the background plays an important role like the main subject
...that you can reach a lot with less effort
...why less is more
...where there is most potential
...how do you find the right distance
...how do you find the right frame
...how you approach people in the right moment

I will show a lot of my photos and explain why I have composed them like that. So it's a course with a lot of examples.

When you have completed this course, you will...

...think more before you take the shot
...be more observing when it comes to composition
...better compose your photos
...have more fun doing photography

Who this course is for:

Everybody who is new to photography
Everybody who is new to street photography
Everybody who wants to improve his photographs from a composition perspective
Everybody who wants to learn about composition elements next to the golden ratio
Everybody who enjoys looking at creative and well composed photos
This is not a basic camera course

Featured review

Yasser A.

49 courses

12 reviews

2 years ago

I like the many examples in the lessons. Although the instructor is a bit slow, his slow explanations help me take concentrate better into what he says, the style of the course, on the other hand, is a bit boring in my opinion and so outdated, but overall the course is interesting .

Thomas Leuthard

Streetphotography

4.4 Instructor Rating
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74,439 Students
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Thomas Leuthard ist a street photographer from Switzerland.