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This ONLINE presentation is for OVCC participating members only. Participating members have already paid our annual dues of $20 or are Trial Members. Join our club at: https://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Valley-Camera-Club SEE LINK at upper right corner of landing page. THEN REGISTER Your Attendance Below and Send YOUR MEETUP NAME (e.g. Jane Smith) and mention Real World Composition Webinar to: [email protected] to be able to participate.

Eric Hatch, “Composition is the magic behind the greatest photographs …. or any other graphic art. The Superpower of composition is to create and enhance the flow of energy in the picture you’re about to take. At the end of the course you will have the ability to compose pictures which tell stories, enhance character, and evoke feelings in the viewer. There is a hands-on cropping exercise as well to simulate various cropping guides and techniques.

This course teaches you the principles of good composition, first, in-camera, and second by cropping in the computer. More than that, you will learn (or be re-taught) the basic elements of art design and see how composition literally puts them in their place.

Course duration is between 2 and 3 hours. Discussion is encouraged — in fact vital, if you’re going to get the most out of this course. You will need to download the course PDF and download and print the photograph in the course folder. You will also need 4 bookmarks or strips of heavy opaque paper about 2″ x 10″ — no need to be exact.

BIO: ic Hatch is a fine art and travel photographer based in Loveland, Ohio. Eric won his first photographic award at age 13 for a picture of the rigging of the Charles W. Morgan whaling ship in the Mystic Seaport Museum. He took the shot with a Brownie Hawkeye camera. It was a lousy print, but the concept was good…

Eric was an occasional photographer until 1998 when he purchased his first digital camera. Since then he has taken workshops under Skip Schiel of Boston, Will Crockett, the late Monte Zucker, and numerous other professionals.

His motivational and conceptual landscapes have won the Montgomery Photography Competition in 2003 with repeat awards most years since 2010. In 2004 he won both the Buckeye Award (highest scoring photo from a new member of the Ohio Professional Photographers Association) and the Dumbauld Award for the best illustrative picture in the Mid-States Regional Competition of the Professional Photographers of America. Most recently Eric has shown a one-person exhibit “Hard Times for These Times” at the Middletown Artc Center (Ohio) and has been selected to hang two images in the “Blurry Photographs” competition hosted by 1650 gallery. (January 2018). He is a frequent contributor to blogs about photography. In June, 2017, Eric assumed the post of editor at Exhibitions Without Walls.

He is currently the founder and leader of Faces of Addiction, a project which uses contemporary portraits and accompanying life stories of addicted persons to alter the way we think of addiction and so to make compassion possible. Ten of these works have been added to the Hood Museum of Art permanent collection as a gift from collector Roger Arvid Anderson.”