Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.
Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before. Few techniques I can employ to help improve my composition.
Producing pictures that are pleasing to someone other than me will make my photography much more rewarding. One of the popular rules in photography is the rule of thirds; this is because it makes a photograph less static as well as producing nicely balanced easy on the eye picture. Also, as you have to position things relative to the edges of the frame it helps get rid of ' tiny subject surrounded by vast empty spaces.
Rule of thirds are basically Imaginary lines drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically. You place important elements of your composition where these lines intersect. As well as using the intersections I can arrange areas into bands occupying a third or place things along the imaginary lines. As you can see it is fairly simple to implement. Good places to put things; third of the way up, third of the way in from the left etc.
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