Digital Composition
Leading lines
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Repetition/Grouping
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Framing
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Informal Balance
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Silhouette Lighting
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Angle Up
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Angle Down
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Close Distance
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Far Distance
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Low Key Lighting
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High Key Lighting
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Rule of Thirds
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High Horizon Line
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Low Horizon Line
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Formal Balance
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Selective Focus
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Soft Focus
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In this assignment, we were asked to take seventeen photos, one for each of the composition rules/techniques. Each of of my photos is pretty different and very different from like the last week of summer or last weekend or this or last week. They are also different in that some of the subjects in my photos are people, mostly my friends and some of it is like nature/scenery or like the sky. I think that all of these photos I took on my phone there may be one I took on my camera during the summer but my inspiration mostly just came from what caught my eye and hanging with my friends and taking pictures of them.
I took most of these pictures without even thinking about the compositional rules but they just happened to fall under one of the techniques. For instance, in the photo of the natural pool I was standing up on a hill and looking down at the water and so the photo unintentionally was Angle down. And the other I specifically took the pictures I did to follow the compositional rules for this assignment. For example, for the angle-up photo of Parker Cobb, I crouched down and took a .5 up at him with the idea in my head that the photo would be angle-up.
Not with the intention of this process because I obviously didn't know about this project yet because I took this photo the last week of summer. I made the artistic choice to take a picture of myself in the mirror for framing because I liked how the mirror framed me in the photo before even knowing about the photo rules of composition.
My favorite part of this project was just taking photos and exploring/learning/teaching myself how to like edit photos to enhance them to be at their best and fit the vibe of the photo or just waver I envision when I look at it. I struggled a little with taking soft focus and selective focus photos with my phone because the camera doesn't really allow you to do those types of photos easily. Next time one thing that I would do differently is to just remember to take photos ar certain moments that I just forgot, or wasn't fast enough to react to a cool moment. I would also have done something more interesting this past weekend to take pictures of because I went to a baseball game and there wasn't relly much to take pictures of.