The Complete Composition Course 
This course is about photography rather than cameras, almost all of the techniques and tips here are as applicable to a smartphone as they are to a DSLR, a ‘Mirrorless’ or for that matter a retro-hipster film (or should that be ‘analogue’) camera.
This Online Composition Course is full of tips and techniques to improve your images.
There will be assignments, (never mandatory ; ) for each unit that will reinforce what you learn and a forum and gallery where you can post images for feedback.
The first step in making a well-composed image is to decide what to include and what to exclude. From the 360° 3D space that surrounds us, we select and frame a two-dimensional slice and freeze it in time. Various ingredients can be combined to produce a strong image, one that holds the viewer’s attention and elicits emotions.
Our emotional response to colour is multilayered; inherited life and death responses from a cave-dwelling past mixed in with centuries-old cultural associations, all filtered through our individual life experiences.
This course will show you how to use colours to convey your message much more effectively.
Composition Explored from Every Angle
The subject of Photographic Composition is big and there are many ways to approach it. This course aims to give you as many options as possible, to help you work through thought processes and select an approach from an ever-bigger repertoire of ideas.
We will explore the basics like the ‘Rule of Thirds’ in detail (you will learn when to use it and equally important when not to) along with Leading Lines, the Rule of odds, Sub-framing and Negative Space. All of the so-called ‘rules’ can be broken, however, it’s generally a good idea to know the rules that you are breaking and why.