- arrangement of element in your photos
- no hard & fast for crafting good compositions
- your intention will guide your decisions about composition
acknowledge that compositional issues exists & find a way to convey the intention of your photograph
* Learn to view a scene with different frame of mind!
- notice absolutely everything in your scene
* determine what is important or not
* analyse what is important (hierarchy)
* how various elements relate to each other
Gestalt & image composition
- describes the human brain as holistic with self-organizing tendencies
Gestalt theory ~ platform to perceive how viewers will perceive the image
Five main principles:-
* similarity
* continuation
* closure
* proximity
* figure & ground
Examples of principle gestalt
Additional issues of perception
- light vs dark ( high-key & low -key image)
- shapes
- foreground vs background
- format of photo
- horizon line -> imaging/ real
- colors in photograph
Path through photography
- lines, either real/ implied are followed through a composition
Edges of a photography
- leading lines within the photography can lead viewer into it instead of out of it.
- some photographers darken the corner
Movement within photography
- giving a running person enough space withing the photograph to run.
Perspective and depth
- perspective gives a sense of 3D depth to 2D.
Rules of thirds
- that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced
horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional
elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.
Remove clutter
- includes only visual material that supports your intention
White space
- can be any color but should be either very light or dark so that the text will show up.
- empty or extremely out of focus, areas in photography that can accept text
Other compositional elements
- patterns
- touch of color
- motion as contrast
- experiment with your compositions
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