Framing and Composition Pt 2

What is it?

Composition means to place the objects within the shot, in such a way that it looks aesthetic (Beauty).

Leading Lines:

The natural lines of something that makes you focus.

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Harmony/Balance:

Can be by creating visual symmetry and achieved by colour.

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Symmetry:

Doesn’t have to be the same density (symmetric), there can also be minimal differences, but doesn’t have to be perfect.

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Contrast:

Show 2 worlds in a single shot, they can be complete opposites and can be by colour.

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Texture:

Texture can be seen by lighting, and being close up to the subject, and use Extreme Close Up.

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Repetition:

Makes the image more interesting and capture things that make a sense of unity. Can be by shape, colour, elements, proportion.

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Alignment:

The main vertex, the image holds a central point and all the elements will work around it.

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Gestalt:

Create links between what you think and understand.

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the image is looking down at her, and she is less important/powerful, but she is looking up at them

Movement:

Captured through long shutter speeds which record movement, a moment, emotion expressed. Its a photograph but taken in freezing time.

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Unity

All the elements in the photo make one whole part in.

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Cropping

The removal of unwanted outer areas from a illustrated image/photographic.

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