From Idea to Shot: Composition Fundamentals for Stunning Photographs

I am pleased to present the first free and exclusive event for all those who are part of this beautiful community, our dear friend Luigino Snidero will hold an exclusive course on photographic composition for us on May 16, 2024 at 9:00 pm via ZOOM

To sign up for the course CLICK HERE , register with your email and you will get the link to participate!

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Photographic composition is the art of arranging elements within an image to communicate a message or evoke a specific emotion.

It is the visual language of a photograph, where each element has an important role in the overall story.

Like great jazz musicians, a photographer is an improviser.

During a musical session, the jazz musician plays non-stop, combining music that he has stored up over time and experience. Although it all seems improvised, in reality it is years of rehearsals, study and experience that intertwine in virtuoso musical performances.

Likewise, when a photographer takes a picture, he instinctively recalls his experience and the images he has seen and taken. He translates the world around him into spontaneous images, based on experience and instinct. A visual improvisation, dictated by his experience and instinct, but which still has to follow a score.

Photographic composition is therefore also a question of intuition and creativity.

Experimenting with different compositions and finding your own personal style is essential to growing as a photographer.

Composition is a powerful tool to convey your message and connect with your audience.

Luigino Snidero , from Udine, born in 1958, has been a photographer since the 1980s. In those years he mainly devoted himself to black and white, which he developed and printed in his personal darkroom, the bathroom at home. He attended and won numerous photography competitions in Italy and abroad, and obtained the prestigious FIAF “star”, being the second author at a national level in the FIAF classification in 1986 for the black and white category and obtaining a FIAF star (150 photographs selected in national photography competitions sponsored by the association). He has been a member of numerous juries for photography competitions and has exhibited his works in individual exhibitions in Florence, Mantua, Genoa and at the “Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà” Airport in Ronchi dei Legionari. One of his images is permanently exhibited at the Italian Centre for Author Photography in Bibbiena (Arezzo). For 8 years he was the FIAF Provincial Delegate for the province of Udine. He is a member of the Palmarino Photographic Club APS BFI, a group of photographers known and appreciated at a national level, of which he was President for 10 years. In March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, he organized with his Club numerous free photography evenings open to all, following which his association was recognized as BFI (Benemerito della Fotografia Italiana). For 16 years he has been photographing exclusively in digital, mainly in color. For 15 years he has organized the lessons of the very popular photography course of his Club . His photography ranges from landscape to outdoor "street" portraiture and is often minimalist and characterized by compositional rigor.