Advanced Photo Composition

1. Rule of Thirds

2. Leading Lines

3. Balancing Elements

4. Background

5. Cropping

6. Viewpoint

7. Symmetry and Patterns

8. Framing

9. Avoiding Mergers

10. Create Depth

Hurricane Ike

 

This photo best displays the composition rule of framing because the center of interest is in the middle. The street gives the picture some depth. This photo strikes me because it gives me that gloomy feeling. The man in the photo chose to walk in the very center of the street which is interesting. The subject of the photo would be the man because he fits perfectly in the picture and he is the only moving object.

When I first saw this picture, what got my attention was how the man's hat blends in with the blue chairs. I thought that was cool. This photo is following the composition rule of balance. Even though the man might be off center just a tad, it still has balance. The man is also the subject and main focus. All of your attention goes to the man with the blue hat as you glance at the picture. That is why it is the main subject.

Great black and white photographers, PART 2

William Klein

William was born on April 19, 1928 in New York, New York. Him and his family were poor Jewish immigrants. He felt alienated in his Irish neighborhood. Students from school and kids on the street picked on him because of his religion and culture. Klein was known as the bright, sarcastic kid who liked art and humanities. He loved the moma, museum of modern art. It was like a second home to him from the age 12 and on. At the age 14 he was 3 years ahead of his classmates and enrolled in the city college of New York where he studied sociology. When he turned 18, William joined the US army for two years as a radio operator and stationed in Germany and France. After his discharge he settled in Paris to become a painter. He exhibited in Italy while working with Fernand Leger and he painted a series of abstract murals for Italian architects. Klein was an artist using photography. He set out to re-invent the photographic document. His photots were mostly blurred and out of focus, often almost pushing his camera with wide angle lens into peoples faces. In 1956 he went on to publish a book in New York. It featured this quick reflex 35mm street photography with a graphic design and text. This was later followed by his other books Rome, Moscow and Tokyo. Klein also made a number of movies. His first movie was Broadway by Light. In 1962 he gave up still photography to produce films on Muhammad Ali and Little Richard, the Vietnam War, and experimental films 'Mr Freedom and 'Qui-Etes Vous Polly Magoo' for Vouge. Then in 1980 he went back to still photography.

Pinhole Finale

1) In the negative picture the wall is light and in the positive picture the wall is dark. The picture is also flipped.

2)Negative-nothing an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

Avoiding Mergers

 

The photographer really wanted to capture the fireman, but also capture the building collapsing in the background. The are no colors merging together because of the smoke in the background. The smoke makes it easier to spot the fireman. Also nothing is being cut off in this picture. Everything is centered nicely.

Framing

 

This is a good example of framing because you can see all the buildings. You can see the whole background of the city, but mainly you can see the smoke coming from the twin towers.

Balance

The main focus is right smack in the middle of the picture. It is definitely balanced. The main focus isn't cut off so that's a plus. 

Lines

 

   

 

The Lines of the building helps you recognize that the man is falling down from the building. It's important to have the main focus at the top of the picture so that people can see the length of distance the man is falling.

The Rule of Thirds

 

I picked this picture for my rule of thirds example because you can really see the shadow of the main focus.

Simplicity

 

This is a very good example of Simplicity. The main focus is centered  and nothing is being cut off. The main focus isn't blending in with anything else so you can really see the picture.

Masters of Photography

Gordon Parks

Emmet Gowin

William Klein

Single-lens Reflex Camera

Parallax is an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.

Viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and in many cases to focus, the picture

Contrast ratio is a measure of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black) that the system is capable of producing.

Refresh rate is the number of times in a second that display hardware draws the data.

Aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels.

A Shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.


Exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph.

Depth of field is the portion of a scene that appears acceptably sharp in the image.

F-Stop A measure of the size of the opening in a lens calibrated to a corresponding focal length.

A Focal length of a lens is defined as the distance in mm from the optical center of the lens to the focal point.

Pinhole Pics

I think this picture is outstanding. It just makes me wonder. It's cool and mysterious because its focused on this secret passage way that leads to a little house. The picture isn't warped at all so it looks good.

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I think this is a spider, but it's really hard to tell what else is in this picture. The main focus is very blurry and everything else in the picture is really hard to see. I can't really tell if it's warped or not, but i'm thinking no.