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So you know the technical basics,

where do you go from there?


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1. Explore your options

See the potential photographs in front of your camera

Remember! Print is a flat piece of paper.

Photograph transforms a 3D event into a frozen instant.

The scene will be reduced to a smaller size and confined

within the edges of the picture format.

CONCENTRATE ON THE ACTUAL IMAGE!


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Arthur Leipzig, Stickball, 1950


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How much of a scene to show

Robert Frank, Parade, Hoboken, 1955


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Get closer to your subject

Lee Friedlander


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What is your photograph about?

Jerome Liebling


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Visualize what you want the photograph to look like

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Sally Mann
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Every time you make an exposure you make choices about framing

Ray Metzker


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Walker Evans

Use the background when it contributes to something.


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BASIC DESIGN


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Single small object against a contrasting background attracts attention

Hiromu Kira


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The eye tends to connect two or more spots like a connect the numbers drawing

Don Hong-Oai, Hoops


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Russell Lee, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1939


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A line is a shape that is longer than it is wide. This is an Ex. of an actual line.

Russell Lee


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Ansel Adams

More actual line


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Actual lines

Alexander Rodchenko


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Implied line

Cindy Sherman


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Implied line

Cindy Sherman

P h l f li


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Psychology of lines

Horizontal > calm, stability

Vertical > stature, strength

Diagonal > activity, motion

Zigzag > rapid motion

Curve > gracefulness, slowness


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Ansel Adams


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Ansel Adams


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Shape - tonal changes across the subject can give illusion of depth

Two or more objects invite comparison of their shapes

Man Ray Dennis Stock

M lti l t li h t tt th t dd i t t d it th l t i


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Multiple spot, lines, or shapes can create a pattern that add interest and unites the elements in a scene

Alexander Rodchenko


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Alexander Rodchenko

Objects that are close together can be seen as a single shape


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Man Ray

Objects that are close together can be seen as a single shape

Contrast attracts attention


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Man Ray

Try to emphasize subjects with camera angle use scene to reinforce emphasis Set tension!


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Try to emphasize subjects with camera angle, use scene to reinforce emphasis-Set tension!

Remember! A centered symmetrical arrangement can be boring.

People look first at the sharpest part of a photograph your point of view can have a strong influence


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Annie Leibovitz

People look first at the sharpest part of a photograph --your point of view can have a strong influence

Sh f li ht d d k


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Shape of light and dark

Flor Garduno

Composition -- the rule of third


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Composition -- the rule of third

The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both

horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts. With this grid in mind the rule of thirds now identifies

four important parts of the image that you should consider placing points of interest in as you frame your

image.

N t l thi b t it l i f li th t l f l iti f l t i h t


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Not only this - but it also gives you four lines that are also useful positions for elements in your photo.

The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo


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The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo

becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally. Studies have

shown that when viewing images that peoples eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally

rather than the center of the shot - using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image

rather than working against it.

Arno Rafael Minkinnen

The relative distance of objects from the lens and from each other affects perspective = the illusion


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The relative distance of objects from the lens and from each other affects perspective = the illusion

of 3D in a flat 2D photograph

Toshio Shibata

Thi k S ! O l i f bj t t d th


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Think Space! Overlapping of objects create depth

Suyeon Yun, Birthday Card

Unifying principles of design ( f l t i ll d th t lt f k)


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Unifying principles of design (a successful art is called the gestalt of a work)1. Repetition

Fred R. Conrad


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Annie Leibovitz

2 Variety


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2. Variety

James Hill

3 Similarity


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3. Similarity

James Hill

4. Rhythm


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4. Rhythm

Margaret Bourke-White, contour plowing


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Timothy O'Sullivan

5. Balance


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5. Balance

Pancho Gonzales, 1972


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6. Emphasis


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Andrew Biraj

7. Economy


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Hiroshi Sugimoto


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Edward Weston

7. Continuation


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Fred R. Conrad

Observe & express texture


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