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    Principles of Composition

    Elements of Art Principles of Design

    Line Balance
    Shape Unity
    Color Movement / Rhythm
    Value Emphasis
    Texture Pattern
    Space Contrast
    Rule of Thirds
    Rule of Thirds
    Goal of the rule of thirds is to keep
    your subject out of the direct center
    of your composition

    Most common form of composition

    Most of the time, your subject will be


    on top of one of the intersections
    A. Aubrey Bodine - She Leans
    A. Aubrey Bodine - She Leans
    A. Aubrey Bodine - She Leans
    Kent Reno - Greenwich Village 1973
    Kent Reno - Greenwich Village 1973
    Kyle Younge
    Kyle Younge
    Hanson - Sarah and Lauren at Lands End
    A. Aubrey Bodine
    Davidge Hall
    Hanson
    York Fairgrounds, 2006
    Leading Lines
    Actual - Lines that physically exist

    Implied - Lines that do not physically exist but are imag-


    ined to be there.
    - Line of sight (where someone is looking)
    - Someone pointing
    - Negative Space
    Joselene Martin - A pedestrian bridge over the N2 Highway
    Joselene Martin - A pedestrian bridge over the N2 Highway
    Louis Stettner
    Louis Stettner
    Hanson
    Path through the Hill of Crosses, July 2006
    Lindsay G.
    At least I called into question / Why we walk this route / What’s in it for me?
    Hanson
    Seal Tank, National Zoo 2006
    Margaret Bourke-White
    Bremen Cruise Ship, 1930
    Nathan Lerner
    The Round House 1936
    Fill The Frame
    One subject in the entire composition

    No negative Space

    Telephoto lens or vey close to your subject matter


    Loomis Dean Bill Engdahl
    Izzie G.
    7th Grade, TLC 2009
    Ashley M.
    8th Grade, TLC 2008
    Abelardo Morell
    Edges of the Frame
    Purposefully using an edge / multiple edges to crop part
    of your image.

    This can be done to balance a print, frame in part of the


    subject or just add curiosity to the viewer.
    Thomas Micheal Alleman
    Harry Callahan - chicago 1950
    Connor C.
    Hanson Sami C
    Hay Bails, 2005 TLC 2010
    Hanson
    Portland Headlight
    Bill Hedrich Louis Stettner
    Air Force Academy, 1959
    Frame within a Frame
    A subject within a frame

    can be naturally created or man made


    David Muench - Limestone Window, South Rim
    Marc Ribound
    A Street in Old Beijing
    Louis Stettner Kent Reno
    John Loengard
    Brassai
    Abelardo Morell
    My Broken Glasses and Me
    Abelardo Morell
    Old Travel Scrapbook, 2000
    Hanson
    Kennebunkport, ME - June 2010
    Julia P.
    High School Freshman, TLC 2009
    Ernst Hass
    Kyle Young
    Light and Shadow
    Creating dynamic compositions using strong light

    Angle of the light will change the shadows

    First hour - sunrise

    Golden Hour / Magic Hour / Last Hour


    - Refers to the last hour of sun, 15 minutes after
    Jaromir Funke
    Benedict Fernandez
    Graham Nash Benedict Fernandez
    Veterans’ Anti War Demonstration 1969
    Christine D.
    Alex N.
    Haircut
    Hanson
    Cigar
    Harry Callahan
    Pattern / Texture
    Pattern - Anything that repeats
    - can be people, buildings, etc.

    Texture - the way something feels


    - In photography it is always implied texture
    Abelardo Morell
    Sana M.
    Kent Reno
    San Francisco International Airport
    Edwin Smith
    Edwin Smith
    Point of view
    The angle and position of the camera in relation to the
    ground

    - Who’s viewpoint the image is being seen from


    Charles C. Ebbets
    Lunch atop a skyscrapper
    Abelardo Morell
    Ernst Haas
    Thomas Michael Alleman
    Caroline C.
    Jonas Dovydenas
    Iron Worker, Chicago 1969

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