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Composition

Composition. Making Compositional Choices. The term composition means 'putting together‘. Any work of art is arranged or “put together” using conscious thought in order to communicate an idea. Composition Involves: The Picture Plane: the space you have to work with.

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Composition

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  1. Composition Making Compositional Choices

  2. The term composition means 'putting together‘. Any work of art is arranged or “put together” using conscious thought in order to communicate an idea. Composition Involves: • The Picture Plane: the space you have to work with. • Arranging Forms and Imagery: Placing things in an interesting manner on the picture plane. • Selection: Choosing forms and imagery that will contribute to the concept of your artwork. • It is the STRUCTURE OF A PICTURE – how the elements are laid out in the frame. • How YOU select and organize lines, shapes, value, etc….AND how you use the Elements of Art and Principles of Design!

  3. 1) Rule of Thirds • Brake the frame into thirds, horizontally and vertically • Create a grid with intersecting points where your eyes naturally tend to look.

  4. 1) Rule Of Thirds: Dividing the picture plane into 3 parts- Horizontally, vertically, diagonally • The rule of thirds is the best known composition rule. If you divide the image into thirds, objects should be placed where the thirds cross. • The opposite way of saying this rule is don't put the focal point in the center of the frame.

  5. 2) Framing: • Direct the viewers attention to the primary subject • Creates the illusion of depth

  6. 4) Framing: • Direct the viewers attention to the primary subject • Creates the illusion of depth • Can obscure unwanted objects in foreground/background • Can be naturally occurring • Tight framing • Wide framing • Using an object as a frame

  7. 2) FRAMING

  8. Ansel Adams 3) Disappearing Lines into Corners: • If there are strong lines in the scene, try to get them to disappear into the corner. If the lines break into the center or the edge, it tends to divide the picture. A disappearing line into a corner seems to make composition stronger.

  9. 4) S CURVES The eye enjoys following S curves. This rules seems to apply mostly to water, roads and the silhouettes of people

  10. 5) Dominant Foreground/ Contributing Background

  11. Steve McCurry

  12. 6) Shift in Horizon: • If the sky is the main focus, shift the horizon low • Avoid placing the horizon line in the middle of the frame. It cuts the picture in half.

  13. Shift in Horizon: If the ground, landscape, ocean, cityscape is the main focus, shift the horizon up.

  14. llow horizon 7) Silhouette High horizon

  15. 8) Movement

  16. Giacomo Movement/ repetition Marcel Duchamp Movement/repetition

  17. BAD Good 9) Repetition/ Pattern: Avoid placing objects in rows. Vary the size/scale. Avoid isolating objects. Try to overlap them and create visual connections

  18. 10) Reflections to suggest 3-Dimensional Space

  19. Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh

  20. Vantage Point/ View Point: • Gives your photograph a unique/more interesting view • Drastically different than the usual 5-6 feet off the ground • Use unique angles to capture images from different perspectives.

  21. 11) Bird’s Eye View Point

  22. 12) Bug’s Eye or Worm’s Eye

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