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I was taught to learn the rules of composition so well you don’t think about the rules anymore. Then, open your eyes, heart, and soul and feel the image. The deeper into “the zone” you can get, the deeper the picture becomes. It takes time, practice, and a lot of near misses to elevate your vision to the point of feeling a picture.

Talking about composition - there are two works that influenced me the most: - Vassiliy Kandinsky “Point and line to plane” - Kazimir Malevich “World as objectness” However, I think it is correct to make a comparison with music. There is classical music - it has a strict canon. And we have jazz - actually it also has canon, but it is mostly about rules how to circumvent classical music rules. There is avant-garde where they try to escape any possible rules. And the most humorous thing that in a world of post-modern - all music was played and all photos were shot. All we are left with - is just translate our feelings and thoughts, because we live in a period where both form and pattern are secondary by default.

Great Video, As Usual I Learned Composition Indirectly Through Photographers Who Inspire Me No Formal Training, But Inspiration And Feeling Guide Me The Most In My Work It's Been Going Well, So Far Lol

I always learn a few new things with you. And, I really enjoy these presentations. Your admirers appreciate your effort. I like doing my black and white film photography, but I have a paid coach-instructor help me in the darkroom. Best regards. RS. Canada

Great video, Tatiana. this is definitely one of the best photography channels

Very thoughtful video! I think that instinct can also be trained through experience. Learning composition techniques, examining your own and other people’s work, and then going out there applying what you learn 😊 thanks for giving us insights on how you compose

I just realized that I took an extremely similar photo at Hatshepsut Temple, also because of how strong the contrast was in that exact area. Excellent video as always!!!

I love your channel so much. I would love to hear you critique more work by other artists. I think it's interesting to hear other peoples perspective on images that we're aware of and love but never heard talked about. You do this a lot with photographers as a whole but I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on individual works.

All of your videos are very well detailed and inspiring. Many thanks. Keep it up. Cheers.

Very well done Tatiana and I enjoyed seeing your wonderful images as examples too.

Love your content and your work as well!

Thanks very much.

Hi Tatiana, thank you for a thoughtful video - when Kertesz's, Mondrian's Glasses and Pipe came up I thought it was also a reference to another compositional tool; the rule of three (not to be confused with the rule of thirds.) I love conversations about composition, thank you so much.

Regarding my earlier question, problem sorted. Thanks, Roger

Thank you for this T. Always very insightful content.

Always something to learn

This was amazing thank you very much...it gives insight on different perspectives of composition. (Basically composition is styles for those wondering) you show us that art is subjective. definitely needed this video today.

Thank you for this very helpful video. You explain photography so clearly and understandably.

Nice video Tatiana. I find often that not thinking about the rules of composition actually makes me more creative. I am not sure whether I ignore them or I use them unconsciously but If I don't think about them and just go with the flow I end up creating things I haven't seen before.

Another interesting and enjoyable video. Really enjoyed your photos you used as examples of each topic of discussion. Well done. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

Very helpful, thx for walking through these techniques 👍Appreciate you sharing your knowledge and expertise 🙏much appreciated

I really enjoyed your presentation. It gave me a perspective on not what to shoot but how to see before I shoot, Thank you so much :)

I know about and have learnt the rules about composition, etc, but do I follow them by necessity? No, only if I feel like it or I think a photo may benefit from them. I snap things as I see them and what appeals to me in the moment. Not by following rules or wanting to appeal to what others believe and think. If someone doesn't like my photos, then that's fine by me. That's their own decision and I'm not out to please them, only myself. If they do like them, then great, that's good. Hopefully, they'll like them enough to maybe buy one and spread the word :)

Great video. I like how you used examples from your own personal images to help to explain the different elements/techniques :)

lovely images, this is very inspiring to me so thank you!

This was a really good video, Its great to see the logic behind the natural approach, it builds confidence. Keep up the good work. Joe

This Video is a treasure

Love this video

Composing the frame with a feeling meaning relying on instinct that comes from experience. So yeah, need to do work before understand feeling. Anyway, good video.

Great, thanks

Great vid i learned ur an amazing photog

This was so great and inspiring!! Thank you

super nice one 🙏🏼

Italian photographer Franco Fontana is a master of composition by colours

Who come here from grainydays - finger up!) Good channel.

Thank you for providing a table of contents to allow us to zip past the ad.

Do you have any reading suggestions for composition?

Really interesting and helpful video! Are there any good books you'd recommend on this topic?

More than helpful

Great segment! have a question/comment. all the channels on photography that i see, the photographers dont talk about their workflow. is it just to boring a subject? im trying to get back into photography but the techknology is changing so quickly. can you point me in the right direction? thanks Daniel

good video

sage advice - but the video is too short :-( would love to see a series expanding on these elements

Spontaneous composition comes with practice. People in the comments trying to make excuses to never learn the fundamentals. What a shame.

I believe following rules makes you limited in photography. Photo is a feeling that you felt while you were there.