Photography Guidelines

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• PHOTOGRAPHY
•  GUIDELINES

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• RULE OF THIRDS

You should place the most significant features in
your scene along these outlines, or at the points
where they interconnect.
BALANCING ELEMENTS
You must balance the "weight" of your subject by a
dding another object of lesser significance to fil
l the space.
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LEADING LINES
In thinking about how you place lines  in your com
position, you can affect the way we view the image
, pulling us into the picture, towards the subject
, or on a journey "through" the scene. 
SYMMETRY AND PATTERNS
One more best approach to use them is to break the
 symmetry or pattern in some way, presenting tensi
on and a  focal point to the scene.
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VIEWPOINT
Our viewpoint has a great influence on
the composition of our photograph, and consequentl
y it can seriously affect  the message that the sh
ot conveys.
BACKGROUND
Go searching for a plain and inconspicuous
background and comprise your shot so that it does
not distract or diminish from the focus.
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DEPTH
Since photography is a two dimensional  medium, we
 have to select our arrangement  sensibly to conve
y the sense of depth that  was present in the real
 scene.
FRAMING
By placing these around the edge of the  compositi
on you help to isolate the main  subject from the 
outside world. The result is amore focused image w
hich draws your eye  naturally to the main point o
f interest.
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CROPPING
By cropping tight around the subject you  remove t
he background "noise", guaranteeing
the subject gets the viewer's complete  Attention.
EXPERIMENTATION
Experiment with your composition - you never know
whether an idea will work until you try it.
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