For years, actually sixteen, I taught online classes with the BPSOP. Several months ago, Bryan Peterson who founded the school passed away after a long illness and as a result, the school closed. I still conduct my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops around our planet, and for those interested, I also have a six month ‘mentoring’ program. If you want more details, contact me at: joe@joebaraban.com.
Coming from a background in art rather than photography, I studied the basic elements of visual design, and now I show my fellow photographers how to incorporate these same elements into their imagery: Line, Pattern, Texture, Shape, Form, Balance, as well as negative space, perspective, vanishing points, shadows, and silhouettes..to name a couple!
Each week of a four week class I gave a different lesson, and my students worked with these elements while composing their photos. After the four weeks, they had what I refer to as an Artist Palette, and these elements are on it.
In my Gestalt, students had to have taken my first two classes before signing up. In this class I showed my students how to manage what the viewer perceives and processes when looking at the visual information we lay out to him in the form of a photograph. We work on the six concepts: Figure-Ground, Similarity, Law of C0mmon Fate, Continuance, Closure, and Proximity.
In this slideshow are photos from all three classes, and I hope you are as impressed as I am as how their level of photography jumped up several levels from where they began.
Enjoy:
Visit my website at: www.joebaraban.com, and follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/barabanjoe. Check out my occasional workshop at the top of this blog. Come shoot with me sometime. They fill fairly quick, so if you see one posted and you’re interested, send me an email.
JoeB