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Basic photography—Art, composition, and computer principles
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What makes these images effective?
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• Overall feel of a picture
• Created by
–Perspective
–Focus (isolation and distance)
–Weather and light
•Sunrise/sunset
•Misty, rainy days
•Sun vs. overcast
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Characteristics of a good
photo•Shape
•Line
•Pattern
•Texture
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Shape• Tends to be
noticed first, before texture and pattern
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Line• Lines create –Shape–Pattern–Depth–Perspective
• Line leads the eye–Diagonals–S-curves
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Line creates perspective
• Lines into the horizon show depth and perspective for the viewer
• Vanishing point– Point at which lines converge and
vanish in to the horizon– Place off-center
• Close-ups decrease perspective while wide-angles can exaggerate it
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Pattern• Orderly combination of shape, line, or color
• Pattern can help echo the character of a photo
• Catching attention
– Random patterns
– Slight variation in a pattern
– Pattern in common places
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Texture
• Adds realism (sense of touch) to a photo
• Side lighting highlights texture
• Most portraits use front lighting to decrease texture on skin
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Using light for depth
• Soft side lighting can give a sense of shape and depth without high contrast
–Portraits
–Still life
–When shape/depth is more important that texture
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Giving perspective
• Linear—Lines which converge into the distance
• Diminishing size—objects further away are smaller
• Aerial perspective—atmosphere creates haze, which lightens objects farther away
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Depth and perspective
• Overlapping forms—overlapping objects in a picture create depth and distance
• Selective focusing—focusing on the foreground and blurring the background
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Improving composition
• Rule of thirds
• Simplicity
• Angle and perspective
• Framing
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Have a strong center of interest
• Take pictures at different angles with different compositions
• Work around the rule of thirds
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Simplicity
• One strong center of interest
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Cut offs• Avoiding cutting
out parts or wholes of people or main subjects
• Avoiding cutting out the path of a moving object
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Give the object some-where to go
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Working with angles
• Low angles
–Clear sky backdrop
• High angle
–Eliminate cloudy sky
• 45 degree angles will cut glare
• Avoid centered horizons
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Balance
• Balance color and weight in a picture
• Formal and informal
• Symmetrical and asymmetrical
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Fill the frame• Would this picture look better if
it were closer?
• Long range shots provide depth and perspective
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Uploading Photos