Refer back to the Composition Techniques Examples and/or your notes, and/or the Internet to make sure that you understand each concept listed below.
Using an item or a willing person, you must demonstrate AND EXPLAIN each of the following:
- Simplicity
- Leading and Disappearing Lines
- Filling Your Frame
- Framing Your Subject
- Symmetry
- Perspective /Viewpoint
- Reflections
- Rule of Thirds
To make things a bit easier, you can use any of your previous photos (but they must be YOUR PHOTOS) to demonstrate.
Again, you may make a PowerPoint/KeyNote slideshow to demonstrate by placing the photo on the slide and above, below, or beside the photo, explaining how the technique is applied in the photo.
For this photo I wanted to look at the school from a different angle primarily so that I could fit in both signs, but I really like how it gives me a unique angle and a different perspective on the school. It also creates some neat leading/disappearing lines, as the roof of the school kind of leads the eye along the building.
This is Jeremy. He’s awesome. For this photo I really wanted to focus on his face paint and the face he was making, so I filled the frame up as much as I could. There was a lot of background distraction (we were at a street festival) and I didn’t want anything to draw the viewer’s attention away.
This is a photo of the world’s biggest cross, on top of the mountain that gives Montreal its name. I positioned the vertical part of the cross along the right “third” line, and put the actual cross part at the top right intersection of the lines. This draws your attention to that point, as it is the most interesting part of the photo.
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