Composition
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Mini Tech<br />
<strong>Composition</strong>: Rules and Liberation<br />
May 2017
‘Rules’ of <strong>Composition</strong> (I prefer to call them guidelines)<br />
• Orientation<br />
• Portrait, landscape perspective<br />
• Rule of thirds<br />
• Golden mean<br />
• Lines<br />
• Leading lines, perspective<br />
• Framing<br />
• Space<br />
• Positive, negative, room to move into<br />
• Balance and symmetry<br />
• Rule of odds
‘Rules’ of <strong>Composition</strong> (I prefer to call them guidelines)<br />
• Pattern and texture<br />
• Shape and Form<br />
• Repetition<br />
• Colour/monotone/toning<br />
• Contrasting, complimentary, harmonious<br />
• Movement<br />
• View point<br />
• Birds eye, worms eye, front on, rear, etc<br />
• Depth of Field<br />
• Foreground, middle and background<br />
• Isolate the subject
Breaking the rules<br />
•Whatever works!
Orientation<br />
Portrait, landscape perspective<br />
PHOTOGRAPH BY RAUL TOUZON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Rule of thirds: Golden mean
Lines: Leading lines, perspective
Space<br />
Positive, negative, room to move into
PHOTOGRAPH BY RANDY OLSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHNNY NICOLORO, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
View point<br />
Birds eye, worms eye, front on, rear, etc<br />
Jim Zuckerman
Lighting: Avoid midday light<br />
PHOTOGRAPH BY AMY TOENSING, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Rule of odds
Focus
Create mystery
Change language