The Elements and Principles of Photography

Elements
and
Principals
By: Nicholas Lucarelli
TGJ201
September 28, 2019
Ms. Raposo

ELEMENTS &
PRINCIPLES
OF DESIGN IN
PHOTOGRAPHY
NAME: Nicholas
DATE: September 17, 2019
COURSE: TGJ
PROJECT NAME: BOOK

THE ELEMENTS
1 COLOUR
2 LINE
4 SHAPE
5 TEXTURE
3 SPACE
Principles
6 EMPHASIS
2 CONTRAST
3 BALANCE
4 MOVEMENT/ RYTHEM
5 PATTERN/REPETITION
6 SCALE
7 UNITY

1 Colour
PHOTO: Plants
DATE: Friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10:30
LOCATION: Football field
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
In this photo, you can see a varity of colours ranging from green
to yellow to white and more, the colours are cool colours,
but it is still a very bright photo due to the one warm colour of
yellow

2 Line
PHOTO: Hallway
DATE: Thrusday September 12, 2019
TIME: 10:20
LOCATION: Attendence hallway
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
In this Image, the hallway has lots of leading lines down the
hallway to the door.

3 Space
PHOTO: Literally a Sign
DATE: Friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10:30
LOCATION: Street
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Space is the area used or unused in an image (postive space
and negative space) This Photo has lots of space, specifically
negative space, this makes us focus on the primary object, the
stop sign

4 Shape
PHOTO: Bench
DATE: friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10:30
LOCATION: Near Football field
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Form is 3-Dimensional with height, width and depth, This
photo has all of that. Height can be found in the trees, the
width is the distance between the trees with the bench in
the middle and the depth is found in the back as Trees can
be found very far back.

5 Texture
PHOTO: Bushes
DATE: Friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10;30
LOCATION: Football field
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
This is photo displaying Texture. When you look at this photo,
you image what the bushes feel like, rough, some of the leafs
look smooth, maybe some of the plants are sharp, you can image
alot of textures in this photo

6 Emphasis
PHOTO: Pretty Flower
DATE: friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10:30
LOCATION: Football field
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Emphasis is an area or object within the artwork that draws
attention and becomes the main point. In this image the
emphasis is on the dandelion, it attracts the eyes of the
viewer to it because most of the image is green while the
flower is yellow.

7 Contrast
PHOTO: Trashcan to Sign
DATE: Friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10;30
LOCATION: Back of the School
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Contrast is the differnce between things in a photo, there are
serveral types of contrast’s, contrast of size, colour or value.
This photo is contrast of size. In this photo you can see the sign
is bigger than the trash can.

8 Balance
PHOTO: Symmetry of the Picnic Table
DATE: Friday September 13, 2019
TIME: 10:30
LOCATION: Back of the School
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Balance is basically if a photo is symmetrical or asymmetrical
This photo is symmetrical, the trees and picnic table are almost
fully symmetrical.

9 Movement
PHOTO: Camera Moving
DATE: Wednesday September 25, 2019
TIME: 10;19
LOCATION: TNT room
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Movement is literally as described, movement in a photo, due
to the blurred image you can inquire that the camera is moving
while taking the photo causing movement to appear in the image.

10 Pattern
PHOTO: Lights in the Studio
DATE: Thursday September 12, 2019
TIME: 10:30
LOCATION: TNT Room
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Pattern is also as described, a pattern in an image/ a repeating
element. In this image, the repeating element is the
stage lights.

11 Scale
PHOTO: Computer
DATE: Thursday September 12, 2019
TIME: 10:40
LOCATION: TNT room
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Movement is literally as described, movement in a photo, due
to the blurred image you can inquire that the camera is moving
while taking the photo causing movement to appear in the image.

12 Unity
PHOTO: Rainy day Inside
DATE: Thursday September 12, 2019
TIME: 10:20
LOCATION: Back Enterance
1. Name the element/principle that this photography investigates? How does this subject matter
successfully reflect the specific element/principle of design? Describe.
Unity is the feeling that everything works in an image. I
personally believe this photo has that feeling, the rain sets
the mood and the fact that no one is in sight renforces that
mood