Week 5

Composition in Photography is my favorite thing. Photography is the chance to get everyone to see something how you view it. I like to see that world as loving and peaceful, that is why a lot of my photograph are colorful, flowers, hearts, and playful. My goal when I compose my pictures is to bring some sort of joy and happiness to at least someone out there. But how do I, how do many photographers compose? There are 5 main elements to composing a photograph.

Element 1- Patterns.

Patterns are like illusions, some see it, some don't, it is your job as a photographer to catch the patterns and allow people to see what you're seeing, it's kind of like an "oh, I got it!" photo.


Element 2- Symmetry

A symmetrical photo can be hard to capture. I like to use landscape photographs for symmetry. For example, when the leaves start to change, I like to go out and catch photos of the bright orange and red leaves in half the photo and and the still green pine trees in the other half. It's like the Vermont half and half of beauty.

Element 3- Texture

Texture is a fun thing to play with. Look at the first blog photo that the professor posted, he asked us to guess what it was, It is still unclear what it is, for all we know it could be a wrapper on the side of the road, but he captured the texture and made it beautiful.

Element 4- Depth

Depth is the funnest composition trick of all! You can make someone who is 4ft tall look like a giant. Not only that, but depth increases the image and really brings it out.

Element 5- Lines

I don't particulary like this element. I feel like it really distracts and makes a simple image complicated. I posted a photograph last week of a cat with a piece of grass pointing to his face. Although it draws your attention to his face, I would rather do without, but that is the point of lines. It is to draw the focus of the viewer to the image.

"Instead of looking at composition as a set of 'rules' to follow- I view it as a set of ingredients that can be taken out of the pantry at any point and used to make a great 'meal' (photograph)."
- Darren Rowse




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