Compositions and Techniques
Welcome! I have taken a series of photos to help myself and others understand the composition and techniques of photography. Enjoy :)
Leading lines:
Leading lines are lines that lead you visually to an object or that leads into the distance creating depth. To take this photo, I got on my hands and knees and laid the camera lense on the ground and then took this photo.
Repetition or grouping:
Repetition/grouping is objects repeating in a picture creating the feeling or emphasis. To take this photo I went up to the post of a stop sign and used the angle down technique to create a the repetition of the holes.
Framing:
Framing is shooting through an object/item to focus on the main subject behind it. The subject is being "framed" by something in the foreground. This photo is a little funny but it conveys meaning to the word framing but also to the person in the photo, Owen.
Informal balance:
Informal balance is the composition being balanced by something "heavy" on one side and something "light" on the other. I used the technique of angle up on this photo to get the "heavy" object (the tree to the left of the road) to seem taller compared to the other trees on the other side of the road.
Formal balance :
Both sides sides of the photo are similarly balanced (symmetrical). I took this photo in Washington D.C. when my 8th grade class went. If you didn't know this is the capital building, not the white house ;)
Rule of Thirds:
Rule of Thirds is when the main object or subject takes up two thirds of the entire image. This photo was pretty simple, I just pointed my lense to the left of the sign and took a picture.
Low Horizon Line:
Low horizon line is self explanatory, but it's just when the horizon line is on the lower quarter of the picture. I took this photo going down 295 and that day the skies weren't that blue so I decided to create this photo in black and white to give a more calm feeling.
High Horizon Line:
High horizon line is just like low horizon line, instead the horizon line is at the top quarter of the photo. I took this photo in May during a trip to Washington D.C. This is the Arlington House, it was built to memorialize George Washington.
High key lighting:
High key lighting is a photo that is bright, intense and active! This is the dome inside the capitol building. I just simply pointed my lense upwards and took this photo.
Low Key Lighting:
Low key lighting is the opposite of high key lighting, it's just dark and inactive. I took this photo at my great-grandparents camp, it was dusk and the photo didn't have great lighting to begin with so I changed it into black and white.
Silhouette Lighting:
Silhouette lighting is when light comes from behind and casts onto the object making the object look completely black. The silhouette object is the biggest tree trunk, that's to the right of the sun.
Angle Up:
Angle up is like ant's eye view, you are looking up. The is a photo of vines climbing the lattice.
Angle Down:
Angle down is like you're a bird and you are looking down at the ground. I took some red leaves and arranged them into a heart shape and then I took the photo.
Close distance:
Close distance is a super zoomed in view of the object. I zoomed into this flower, and you can see stamens on the flower.
Far Distance:
Far distance is something far away in the picture, like in this photo something in the distant is the bridge.
Soft Focus:
In this photo I took a picture of a spider-web on a branch and then went to photoshop and blemished the entire photo to give it the blurry look.
Sharp Focus:
This is a picture of one of the rooms in the national library. You can see every detail carved into the marble on the ceiling and on the columns.
Selective Focus:
Selective focus is one thing focused in the image while everything else is blurred out. In this photo, part of the cats back is the main focus while the rest of it is blurred.
