Internal Composition
Lesson 6 from: Capture and Edit Photos of People in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Internal Composition
Lesson 6 from: Capture and Edit Photos of People in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
6. Internal Composition
Lessons
Introduction
01:26 2Looking for Light
01:40 3Setting Exposure
01:56 4ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
01:59 5Composition- Rule of Thirds
01:03 6Internal Composition
01:35 7Auto and Back Button Focus
01:35 8Posing vs. Directing
01:12Shooting Manual Mode Recap
01:34 10Lightroom: Interface
00:57 11Lightroom: Importing and Albums
01:33 12Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking
01:56 13Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:38 14Lightroom: Color Profiles
02:31 15Lightroom: Export and Share
00:53 16Lightroom: Gradients
02:14 17Lightroom: Brush Tool
01:27 18Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
02:09 19Why Use Photoshop
01:03 20Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
01:16 21Photoshop: Liquify Tool
02:39 22Photoshop: Getting Back to Lightroom
00:36 23Photoshop: Capturing Great Portraits Recap
01:04Lesson Info
Internal Composition
So while I'm photographing and keeping that basic composition in mind, I'm also thinking about internal composition. Now internal composition is a little bit more complicated and a little bit harder to pay attention to while your photographing. Especially when you're photographing people. And sometimes people forget that there are poles sticking directly out of people's heads or there are weird lines that lead right in to someone's ear. And so those types of things can be very distracting to a photograph and that's called internal composition. It's how the internal elements of a photograph relate to each other. For instance you can see that there's a pole right down behind Indy. And if I'm not careful, I could put that right on top of her head and it would make for a less good composition. The other thing I'm paying attention to is the gray container on that train car is a really great frame to put Devon inside of. So it's almost an internal frame that she's inside of in the photograph...
. And as long as I keep shifting around I can find all of those internal elements. And then sometimes I'll find something that I really can't get rid of because I want to keep the sky but I want to get rid of say a telephone pole. That's something I can remove later inside of Lightroom or even Photoshop. So I'm not gonna concern myself too much with that when I'm dealing with composition. As long as it looks like it's simple to remove, I'm gonna favor the composition over excluding that element.
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