photo composition

Photography Basics

Photo Composition – Choose Your Subject

Choosing Your Subject

Every good photo has a subject, and in a great photo the subject is what attracts the viewer immediately.

In some photos, the subject may be quite obvious … an expressive face, a colorful Autumn landscape, or some sort of dramatic news event.

And in others, the subject may be more subtle – a pensive mood, a mischievous glance, or perhaps just the feeling you experience while viewing something you like.

You may want to ask yourself what exactly am I trying to communicate about this subject. Is my subject a single object or person? Or is it many things combined so as to express a single idea?

Photography Basics

Photo Composition – Rule of Thirds

A well known rule of composition is the “rule of thirds”.

Imagine your image divided into a grid of 9 equal parts, similar to a tic tac toe grid.

Where these lines intersect are known as power points, or strong points of interest. Artists have been applying this rule for centuries.

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Composition In Photography

Photo composition is all about the art of subjective arrangement … what to do with all that stuff. Composition is really about choices.

What is your subject?

What do you want to say about the subject?

Or what is the subject saying about you?

What do you include and what do you leave out?

Photography Basics

Photo composition is all about the art of subjective arrangement … what to do with all that stuff. Composition is about choices.

What is your subject? What do you include and what do you leave out? And how do you arrange all the elements that are included?

Composition in photography uses many of the same guidelines used in painting, film making and similar visual arts.

The Mind Filters What We See

Whenever we see something, our eyes take in everything within our angle of view. The mind processes and evaluates this incoming data, compares it to past experiences, and reaches certain conclusions about what your seeing.

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