Composition Techniques

The Composition Techniques project was the biggest project of the semester. We had to have one picture of each technique and five composites. A composite is multiple (3 in my case) images on top of each other and blended together in Photoshop. The ten composition techniques are Leading Lines, Rule of Thirds, Frozen or Blurred Motion, Reflection, Framing, Forced Perspective, Repetition, Bird's Eye View, Worm's Eye View, and Shadows and Silhouettes. The images below will be in that order.

These 5 composites are made up of pictures that came from the composition techniques.

A picture that incorporates Leading Lines has some sort of line pointing or guiding a view to the images' subject.

A Rule of Thirds image does not have its subject in the very center of the picture. Instead it puts the subject in one of the image's corners.

In a frozen or blurred motion picture the subject is moving. To show that the subject is moving, the background has to be blurred or the subject has to be caught in a way that is impossible to pose.

A reflection image is very simple, the only requirement is that there has to be some sort of reflection in the shot.

In a framing picture, there has to be some sort of natural frame surrounding the subject.

In a forced perspective shot, the image has to fool the viewer into thinking they are looking at something they aren't actually looking at. In this case the picture is turned on its side to make the viewer think the person is sitting normally.

With repetition there just has to be a repeating factor in the image.

In bird's eye view, the camera has to be above the subject.

With worm's eye view, the camera has to be below the subject.

With shadows and silhouettes the subject has to either be in front of or behind a light.