Photography You will be able to distinguish good photo composition using 6 basic photo techniques

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PhotographyYou will be able to distinguish good
photo composition using 6 basic photo techniques
Wednesday/Thursday Sept 22nd/23rd
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Key Terms

• Cropping
• The cutting or marking of a photograph to
  eliminate unnecessary material and highlight
  important elements
• Sizing
• Reducing or enlarging a cropped photo to fit
  exactly in a space on the layout

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Key Terms

• Rule of Thirds
• A method of composing photographs in which the
  field of vision is divided into thirds
  horizontally and vertically and the image is
  placed at the intersection of any two lines
• Halftone
• A screen the prepares a photographic image for
  reproduction by converting it into a series of
  tiny dots
• Photo Essay
• A story told in pictures generally involving 3
  to 7 photographs

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Good Photo Composition

• Keep it simple
• Good photographs are simple. The best ones
  involve 1 or 2 centers of visual interest. They
  have nothing distracting and include only whats
  relevant.
• Fill the frame
• When you shoot most photographs, move up close to
  the subject.

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Good Photo Composition

• Fill the frame

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Good Photo Composition

• Framing
• Frame your subject

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Good Photo Composition

• Avoid Mergers and Awkward Cuts
• Objects that seem to merge into the subject, such
  as light poles growing out of heads, are
  distracting to the viewer. The same goes for any
  disconnected in the photo.
• Use the rule of thirds
• As you shoot, divide the frame into thirds both
  horizontally and vertically

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Good Photo Composition

• Rule of Thirds
• Place your subject at the intersection of any two
  lines.

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Good Photo Composition

• Rule of Thirds

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Good Photo Composition

• Rule of Thirds

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Good Photo Composition

• Enhance posed shots
• In general, avoid posed shots. But, when you have
  to do posed shots, try to enhance them. For
  example, shoot the swim team in the pool.
• Work with patterns, curves and leading lines
• Repetition is an effective composition element.
  Having a pattern broken by some action makes a
  good photo as well.
• Similarly, having a subject at the beginning or
  the end of a leading line or curve can draw the
  reader into the action

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Good Photo Composition

• Repetition

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Good Photo Composition

• Repetition

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Good Photo Composition

• Leading Lines

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Good Photo Composition

• Leading Lines

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Good Photo Composition

• Try various Angles and Viewpoints
• For a wider range of shots, photograph a scene
  from different anglesfrom above, below, to the
  side, etc.

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Good Photo Composition
Various Angles
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Good Photo Composition

• Give Meaning to an image
• A good photograph must do more than just present
  a subject doing something. It must present a
  subject doing something in a meaningful way.

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Class Activity

• Take a yearbook
• Find assigned photograph
• Be ready to share

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Shooting Assignment

• Take Photos that can be used to Advertise or Sell
• Choose an item(s) from the box
• Stage a photo that could be used in an
  advertisement
• Use the techniques we just went over

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Daily Grade Due Friday

• Using the internet, find, print, and label the
  following photos
• 1. Fill the Frame
• 2. Framing
• 3. Rule of Thirds
• 4. Leading Lines
• 5. Repetition
• 6. Odd Angle
• You will need to save the photos on the desktop,
  plug into the server, then print. BE SURE to
  DELETE your photos off the desktop when you are
  finished.