Bonnie’s image from my September part I class
For those of you new to my blog, I teach two online classes witht the BPSOP. I also conduct my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops around our planet.
I show my fellow photographers how to incorporate the elements of visual design into their imagery: Texture, Pattern, Form, Balance, Shape, Form, Line, and Color are the basic elements that we work on in this four week class.
In my part II class we continue working on these elements with more emphasis on Line; the most important of all the elements since none of the others would exist without Line.
We also work on ways to create Visual Tension, and in my part II class integrating a Vanishing Point into their composition, as well as spending an entire lesson on the silhouette, and shadows…which are your best friend!
Every so often I like to show the images from my part I and II classes, and I’m extremely proud and impressed with just some of the images from the last three months.
The methods we use to gain attention to our photography will vary, but what’s important is how we manage what the viewer perceives and processes when looking at the visual information we lay out to him in the form of a photograph.
Humans rely on perception of the environment that surrounds them. Visual input is a part of our everyday life, and as photographers it’s our prime objective to present this visual information in a way that takes control of what the viewer sees when looking at our imagery.
I hope you’ll agree that these photographs have done just that.
Visit my website at: www.joebaraban.com, and chckout my upcoming workshops at the top of this blog. Come shoot with me sometime, and I hope to work with you in one of my BPSOP classes.
JoeB
