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    The document discusses the rules of composition in photography. It notes that rules can lead to mediocrity but without rules there are no guidelines for creating harmonious photographs. It explores different compositional techniques photographers can use like filling the frame, negative space, horizons, rule of thirds, selective focus, leading lines, s-curves, foreground, framing, juxtaposition, symmetry, patterns, and simplicity. The document encourages photographers to think about their subject matter, viewpoint, and how to visually guide the viewer's eye through the photograph.

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    The Rules of Composition: by Peter Hall

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    The document discusses the rules of composition in photography. It notes that rules can lead to mediocrity but without rules there are no guidelines for creating harmonious photographs. It explores different compositional techniques photographers can use like filling the frame, negative space, horizons, rule of thirds, selective focus, leading lines, s-curves, foreground, framing, juxtaposition, symmetry, patterns, and simplicity. The document encourages photographers to think about their subject matter, viewpoint, and how to visually guide the viewer's eye through the photograph.

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    The document discusses the rules of composition in photography. It notes that rules can lead to mediocrity but without rules there are no guidelines for creating harmonious photographs. It explores different compositional techniques photographers can use like filling the frame, negative space, horizons, rule of thirds, selective focus, leading lines, s-curves, foreground, framing, juxtaposition, symmetry, patterns, and simplicity. The document encourages photographers to think about their subject matter, viewpoint, and how to visually guide the viewer's eye through the photograph.

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    The Rules of Composition: by Peter Hall

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    The document discusses the rules of composition in photography. It notes that rules can lead to mediocrity but without rules there are no guidelines for creating harmonious photographs. It explores different compositional techniques photographers can use like filling the frame, negative space, horizons, rule of thirds, selective focus, leading lines, s-curves, foreground, framing, juxtaposition, symmetry, patterns, and simplicity. The document encourages photographers to think about their subject matter, viewpoint, and how to visually guide the viewer's eye through the photograph.

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    THE RULES OF

    COMPOSITION
    BY PETER HALL
    “Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that
    raise you quickly to a level of acceptable
    mediocrity, then prevent you from
    progressing further”

    The Art of Photography, Bruce Barnbaum


    “There are no rules for good photographs, only
    good photographs”

    Ansel Adams
    What is composition ?
    “an arrangement of the parts of a work of art so
    as to form a unified, harmonious whole”

    The Art of Photography, Bruce Barnbaum


    What is your photograph of ?
    • A thing ?
    What is your photograph of ?
    • A place ?
    What is your photograph of ?
    • A person ?
    What is your photograph of ?
    • An event ?
    What is your photograph of ?
    • Nothing at all ?
    “a good photograph is knowing
    where to stand” Ansel Adams

    • Where do I stand ?
    If you stand where everyone else is, you will
    take the same photograph
    • Where do I look ?
    When everybody is looking up – look down
    • Which way do I hold my camera ?
    Still (usually)
    A contradiction 1 – fill the frame
    A contradiction 2 – negative space
    The only unbreakable rule ?
    The only unbreakable rule ?
    • Straight horizons !
    Except when you break it...
    Oh no, it’s...
    Oh no, it’s...the rule of thirds
    Selective focus
    Lead in lines
    Lead in lines - direction
    The S Curve
    Foreground
    Framing within the frame
    Juxtaposition
    Square
    Panorama or ‘letter box’
    Symmetry
    Diptych
    Odd numbers (the preference for 3)
    Repeating patterns
    Simplicity
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