Photo composition Rules How To Capture The Moment.

Photo composition Rules

How To Capture The Moment

What will you learn?

• Recognize the value of quality pictures• Recognize the basics of

photographic composition• Recognize common

photographic problems

• The photograph is a story, a series of connected sentences• Compose your photo to increase its expressiveness

Why Compose A Photo?

• One main subject• Clean

background helps viewer know where to look

Dominant Subject

Dominant Subject

Dominant Subject

Dominant Subject

Dominant Subject

Dominant Subject

Rule of Thirds

• The subject is placed off-center

• Divide the frame into thirds horizontally and vertically, and place the subject at an intersection

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds

Rule of thirds

Rule of Thirds

• The photographer uses a fast shutter speed to give the effect of stopping motion

Freezing Action

Freezing Action

Freezing action

Freezing Action

Freezing Action

Freezing Action

• Catches strong facial expression or body language

• Timing is vital

Emotion

Emotion

Emotion

Emotion

emotion

emotion

emotion

emotion

• Taken from below• Makes small

things look huge• Adds interest to

the subject

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s Eye View

Worm’s eye view

• Taken from above

• Can make big things appear smaller

Bird’s Eye View

• Taken from above

• Can make big things appear smaller

Bird’s Eye View

• Subject is framed by an element within the picture

• Draws interest to the dominant subject

Framing

framing

Framing

Framing

1. Dominant subject2. Rule of thirds3. Freezing action4. Emotion5. Worm’s Eye6. Bird’s Eye7. Framing

Photo Composition rules recap

Assignment – photo composition identification

• Locate one photo representing each of the previously discussed photo composition rules– Can be from the web or one you’ve taken

• Label each photo (they should be JPG files) with your last name, composition rule and class period– Smith dominant subject 4– Smith freezing action 6

• Create a “photo composition” subfolder in your “photo journalism” H drive folder for storage

• Submit all seven photos to Mr. Nigrelli via Google Drive by midnight on Friday, September 6