POV1115 Week6 Composition Part I
POV1115 Week6 Composition Part I
POV1115 Week6 Composition Part I
POV 1115
Basics
Unity
Simplicity
It’s the main principle to create a completeness sense in a representation. All the objects which
also interact each other in the photography must be a part of the whole representation.
Unity
Simplicity
Unity
Simplicity
UNITY
Subject
UNITY
Subject
VARIETY
is defined as an area or object within the artwork that draws attention and becomes a focal point. Subordination is
defined as minimizing or toning down other compositional elements in order to bring attention to the focal point.
Emphasis
Focal Point
Emphasis
Focal Point
Emphasis
Focal Point
Emphasis
Focal Point
Movement
Rhythm
photographers talk about movement in an image, they often refer to the rhythmic effect of some visual element that
repeats itself – for example, people standing in a line, a row of birds sitting on a tree branch, or the chairs curving
around the stool in the photo on the right. Repeating patterns and motifs can have a similar rhythmic feeling.
Recurring elements create a sense of momentum and continuation, much like notes on a page of music.
Movement
Rhythm
Movement
Rhythm
Movement
Rhythm
Movement
Rhythm
Movement
Gradation
Gradation is a slow transition between opposites - whether it be darkness slowly changing to light, small objects
growing larger, or one colour turning into another.
Movement
Gradation
progressive gradations – of color, of size, of light, of shape – are especially powerful in gently coaxing the eye through a photograph; motion blur itself often appears as a
gradation of tone, color, and transparency in the frame. Any time the eye is naturally and predictably encouraged to move, to be carried from one area to the frame to ano
you have visual flow. These are the kinds of image that make you experience great movement — even when nothing is actually moving.
Movement
Gradation
Movement
Gradation
Movement
Gradation
Movement
Blur
Movement
Blur
Movement
Blur
Movement
Blur
Movement
Blur
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
High shutter speed shots that freeze people, animals, vehicles, rivers, balls, and other subjects in motion clearly let us know that the
photo is extracted from a scene with action. The mind fills in the rest. We humans are so acutely aware of our own body language that
almost any shot of people encourages us to read movement into their postures, even if they are sitting, lying, standing. If you look at
the last three words in that previous sentence, they are all verbs suggesting action, albeit subtle action, what psychologists who work
with the Rorschach inkblot test call “passive movement.”
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
Movement
Frozen/Implied Movement
Movement
Eye Movement
Visually, the frontal plane and the wall have no depth but they can be given the appearance of depth by adding
perspective
Perspective
One Point Perspective
The lines along the top and bottom of the plane now appear to meet or con- verge at
a single point called a vanishing point or VP. Usually the vanishing point appears on
the horizon, although it can appear anywhere. This creates a longitudinal plane, an
extremely important cue to illusory depth. The longitudinal plane appears to have
Perspective
One Point Perspective
Perspective
One Point Perspective
Perspective
One Point Perspective
Perspective
One Point Perspective
Perspective
One Point Perspective
Perspective
One Point Perspective
Perspective
Two Point Perspective
Symmetry is the
property of an object
or image in which both
sides are equal but
opposite about a
central dividing line.
Many buildings and
the human body, for
example, have this
two-sided (bilateral)
symmetry Of
imperfectly in the latter
case), while many
flowers are radially
symmetrical about any
line that cuts through
their centre.
Balance
Symmetry
Balance
Symmetry
Balance
Symmetry
Balance
Symmetry
Balance
Symmetry
Symmetric Balance can be seen in the distribution of the weight by a centered object even though the both sides of the
picture don’t have the similar objects. For instance, Nikos Economopoulos photograph represents equal distribution Of
the composition with a centered image.
Balance
Asymmetrical
Balance
Asymetrical
Balance
Asymetrical
Asymmetric Balance doesn’t require a mirror effect as Symmetric balance. In an asymmetric valance, equal
distribution of the dissimilar Objects crates the balance in the representation. In Salgado’s photograph the weight
equally distributed between the foreground (the worker) and background (the red star) with creating different focal
points.
Balance
Asymetrical
Balance
Asymetrical
Balance
Asymetrical
Aspect Ratio
Aspect Ratio
3:2
This is the closest to the golden ratio, which makes it visually appealing and more
balanced. Painters and artists used it long before even photography was invented. It’s
also the ratio of a 35mm film.
Aspect Ratio
4:3
4:3 aspect ratio is a common standard of modern day monitors and screens. So, this ratio looks
much more aesthetic on screens.Advertisers use this ratio all the time for digital
advertising. Micro four thirds cameras also us this ratio as their standard.
Aspect Ratio
1:1
This aspect ratio was common with medium format cameras in the old days. It was becoming
popular when Instagram became a sensation for photographers.It is pretty much standard for
social media nowadays. With this ratio, the image isn’t affected no matter which orientation you
are viewing it in.
Aspect Ratio
1:1
Aspect Ratio
1:1
Aspect Ratio
16:9
This is the standard for HDTV and motion pictures. Because of this, it looks cinematic.
Certain types of shots look particularly beautiful in this ratio. Although when it comes to
stills, it is not a widely used aspect ratio.
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Aspect Ratio
Panaromic
This ratio was mostly used by mathematicians and the Artists who
had believed that the beauty of the nature depended in this formula.
In this picture you may seeOn of Most sophisticated form of golden
ratio which is named as Fibonacci Spiral.
Aspect Ratio
Golden Rule
Aspect Ratio
Golden Rule
Aspect Ratio
Golden Rule
Aspect Ratio
Golden Rule
Aspect Ratio
Golden Rule
Aspect Ratio
Golden Rule
Aspect Ratio
Rule of Thirds
Aspect Ratio
Rule of Thirds
Aspect Ratio
Rule of Thirds
Aspect Ratio
Rule of Thirds
Aspect Ratio
Rule of Thirds