Photographic Composition Course

April 27, 2020 Len Metcalf

It is with great pleasure I can announce my first video course on Photographic and Artistic Composition. It is thirty hours long and covers a wide range of topics that are not normally covered when discussing composition. It will be broadcast live on Tuesday Evenings at 6 pm, and will be available to Len’s Club members or for you to purchase separately.

The course will finish broadcasting on 1st December 2020 and will be delivered to your doorstep in December.

Buying the course outright has many advantages.

No ongoing subscription
Own a physical copy of the workshop forever. (USB or DVD options)
Book of exercises illustrated with Len’s beautiful photographs included
Being able to watch it on your tv and not be internet dependent.

That is 30 hours of video about photographic composition. A quick search will soon reveal that no one is offering a course of this depth or detail to photographers anywhere in the world.

Weekly one hour presentations are as follows:

What is composition? Introduction to course. 5th May 2020
Visual language - how angles communicate emotions 12 May 2020
The Power of the Center 19th May 2020
The allure of Contrast - luminosity and steering the eye 26th May 2020
Living at the Edge. How the of the frame and corners define the boundaries 2nd June 2020
Chiaroscuro. Understanding tonal depth and volume 9th June 2020
Perspectives. Understanding aerial, linear and colour 16th June 2020
Figure Ground, commonly known as positive and negative space by photographers 30th June 2020
Aspect ratios, considering the frame shape as compositional elements 7th July 2020
Golden Ratios, dividing the frame, the point of power and the rule of thirds 14th July 2020
Using the space within the frame - Placing primary and secondary elements - Similarity and Proximity 21st July 2020
Minimalism as a design ethic - less is more 28th July 2020
Subject Isolation & Clean Backgrounds 4th August 2020
The dance of the highlights, understanding how our eyes are attracted and steered through the artwork 11th August 2020
Scared of the shadows - understanding low key compositions 18th August 2020
High key composition, when you intentionally blow out the highlights 25th August 2020
Repetitions strengthen - Gestalt Design Principle of Similarity 1st September 2020
Colour theory, how colour works 8th September 2020
The Real Colour Wheel and science of how we see 15th September 2020
Magical Colour Combinations, understanding how we mix colours together in our compositions 22nd September 2020
Vantage Points - where you are looking from 29th September 2020
Closure and Continuation- Gestalt Design Principle - continuing shapes and lines 6th October 2020
Patterns, sorting for difference and similarity 13th October 2020
Tondo, Square and Symmetry 20th October 2020
Movement and time 27th October 2020
Finding compositional balance 3rd November 2020
Photographic depth, bokeh, depth of field as a compositional language 10th November 2020
Congruence, matching the main subject with the focal points 17th November 2020
Diptych, Triptych and more 24th November 2020
The final bag of tricks…. rights, wrongs and other oddities 1st December 2020

Each presentation includes exercises for you to explore and learn about the concepts discussed. This is the ideal way to reinforce your learning.

The course is $395.00 for the 30 hours of video and the course book. Delivery of the videos on DVD or USB and course book will be in December 2020. You will be able to watch each presentation live, and view it afterwards at our website, or from a browser on your phone, tablet or computer.

To purchase this course please follow this link to Len’s School

https://www.lensschool.com/workshops-tours/learn-visual-composition-workshop

Alternatively you can join Len’s Club…. https://www.lensschool.com/subscribe#join