Street Photography with Your Phone: Color and Composition
Creating a Basic Composition
A course by Josh Edgoose , Photographer
About the video: Creating a Basic Composition
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about various compositional techniques to elevate your mobile photography and overall build confidence when taking a picture. ”
In this video lesson Josh Edgoose addresses the topic: Creating a Basic Composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Street Photography with Your Phone: Color and Composition. Discover how to take candid shots of city streets using your mobile phone and edit them in Lightroom Mobile.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating a Basic Composition In this lesson, I'll talk about various compositional techniques to elevate mobile phone photography and help you build confidence when taking photographs with a phone. One of the techniques I love is the use of negative space. Negative space It's using a part of the frame or photo where nothing is happening to build contrast on other areas of the image. It's a technique to emphasise and draw your eye into a focal point. We use this negative space to draw the eye and build contrast around another element in the photograph. To illustrate these compositional techn...”
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Course summary for: Street Photography with Your Phone: Color and Composition
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom -
Areas
Documentary Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Mobile Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography, Social Media

Josh Edgoose
A course by Josh Edgoose
Josh Edgoose is a London-based freelance photographer with over 15 years of experience. He first started studying photography after leaving school before going on to launch his own clothing brand, where he put his skills into practice by photographing his products. After years of honing his skills and experimenting with photography on a daily basis, he was approached by a publisher to work on a book of his work, Brilliant Parade, which captures his street photography from around London during a five-year period.
Since then, he’s become a full-time freelance photographer, started his own YouTube channel and hosted workshops on photography. His photographs have been featured in publications such as It’s Nice That, i-D, Creative Boom, The Guardian, and more. He also shares his works with over 100K followers on Instagram.
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