Composition and Photography—Working with Photography Using Design Concepts
Feb 2025
Good composition is a fundamental building block of high-quality photography. It is easy to recognize, but it is hard to achieve. This webinar will guide photographers at any level to improve their work by creating compelling compositions.
Our presenter, Harold Davis, will simplify aspects of photographic composition. You will learn to:
- Work with shapes such as lines, circles, and rectangles,
- Understand directionality, entering, and exiting in composition,
- Work with patterns and repetition,
- Recognize and use positive and negative space, and
- Use the various kinds of abstraction in your work
About Our Presenter
Harold Davis is a world-class artist and photographer who has expanded the parameters of his field with imagery and new techniques as an author and educator.
Honored with the prestigious Photographic Society of America Progress Award in 2022 for his development of a unique technique for photographing flowers for transparency, Davis’s work has been described as “ethereal” and having “a purity and translucence that borders on spiritual” (Popular Photo Magazine). Previous Progress award honorees include Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Walt Disney, and Ken Burns.
Check out Harold’s interview on KTVU FOX 2 in San Francisco about seven recently released USPS postage stamps that feature his work.
Recording: Composition and Photography – Working with Photography Using Design Concepts