lessons on composition

Composition

- arrangement of elements within your photograph

- how elements are captured within your scene

- important factor how ur viewers will respond to ur photographs

- important to consider when making photograph

- there are no hard-and fast directions for crafting good compositions

-acknowledge that it exist & find a way to convey the intention of your photograph

- intention will guide your decisions abt composition

- learnto view a scene with diff frame of mind

- use sbj matter to make image clearer

- notice absolutely everything in your scene

- determine what is or is not important

- what will viewers notice first? 2nd? 3rd?

- How do the various elements relate to each other?

Gestalt and Image Composition

- Theory developed in the 1920s by German psychologist

- Describe human brain as holistic

5main principles

- Similarity

Continuation

Closure

Proximity

Figure/ground

Additional Issues of perception

- Light vs Dark --- High key photographs are visual info that is mostly lighter than middle grey, mid tone used lesser. Low key are info that is mostly darker than middle grey.

- Shapes ----eyes tend to complete geometric shapes although others may not see it.

- Foreground vs Background --- appears larger in a photograph than do background elements

- Format of Photograph --- horizontal more peaceful.

- Horizon Line . horizon line m'b real or imaginary, tends to divide the sense in section

- Colors in photograph --- cool toned obj( yellow orannge...

Edges of photograph

- leading lines within the photograph can lead the viewer into it, instead of out of it.

Movement within photo

- give a running person enough space within the photograph to run

Perspective and depth

- give a sense of 3dimensional depth to a 2dimen

- depth lies within the viewers perception

- select depth that match field

Rule of thirds

- elements look more interesting in rectangle

- place important elements at any of the 4intersections (lines put like tic tac toe)

Remove Clutter

- you are responsible for the content o

include only visual material that support ur image

White spaces

empty, or extremely out of focus

used very light colors or very dark

Other compositional elements

- patterns

touch of color

motion

My 3 final design projects

1st design

- move design to the selected scale size page. (16inch x 20inch & 300pixels)

- ctrl T to adjust the scale according to the size of the page.

- use brush draw the outline

- used the shape tool which is the rounded rectangular tool for the windows and doors of the airplane.

- then continue on the outlines with brush tool.

- after using the brush tool and paint bucket to color the whole picture to make it even and fill up the empty spaces.

- after coloring I used the blur effect from filter; blur; smart blur.

- I filter again by using the texture.

before after

2nd design

- by using the gradient tool I used it for the grass to mix the color evenly.

- Filter the grass with craquelure.

- also used the gradient tool for the lake/water.

- used a dark blue for the outline of the lake.

- filter it with texturizer.

after that using the brush tool to color everything. Putting some shadings on the stones with dark colored gray and outlining .

before after

3rd design

- use tool brush to outline all the lines.

- so that I could use the magic wand tool to color it easily.

- using the bucket tool to color the buildings.

- filtering the buildings with texturizer.

- colored the sky with gradient tool with the mixed of different kinds of blue colors.

- colored the glass with very light cyan color.

- use filter for the sky and the glasses. To make the glass look a little real.

- magic wand to select areas of the tents and cup use paint bucket to color it.

- filter the tent with plastic wrap which makes the tent look like the sun is shining on it.

- use gradient again for the side path and the road where the hand phones are.

- filter the ground with texturizer.

before after