They get you to the shoot site and then you’re on your own (heck, sometimes the workshop guides even take off and do their OWN shooting – on your dime).

In such moments, you can create your composition with these factors in mind.A lot of workshops are more-or-less just guide services. This awareness will generally be subconscious, but, at times, when making a photograph, these elements might come to the forefront of your artistic eye. Regardless of the elements of art that you learn, as I said above, it is your knowledge and awareness of these elements that can become a valuable tool in your compositional tool kit as well as help you deliver a clear meaning to your work.

In photography, they are presented to us in the world before our lens. With paintings and drawings, these elements are added to the blank canvas.

I base my list not just on graduate studies of photography and years of creating images, but on the names of basic elements featured in the personally influential Kodak book, The Art of Seeing. My list of seven includes size and depth in place of space and value. It's worth noting that many articles and websites covering this subject list the basic elements of art as: line, shape, form, texture, color, space, and value. There are seven basic elements to photographic art: About the Elements of a Photograph Series

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