Keeping COMPOSURE
Planning, positioning and arranging of elements in a photograph so that the image communicates the story as clearly and powerfully as it can.
What is Photo Composition
When equal weight is given to multiple subjects within the frame.
What is Balance
Standing on a table and shooting down at your subjects is an example of this.
What is Bird's Eye View
This allows you to control your background.
What is Selective Focus (Depth of Field) or using a simple background (to eliminate distractions)
The setting on the mode dial that allows you to access portrait and landscape modes.
What is SCN (Special Scene Mode)
Usually the best frame orientation to capture horizontal action.
What is Landscape
Placing your center of interest off-center in the viewfinder.
What is Rule of Thirds
Getting behind your subject and including their shoulder and head in the corner of the frame while focusing on another subject is an example of this.
What is Shooting Over the shoulder
This also allows you to control your background.
What is Selective Focus (Depth of Field) or using a simple background (to eliminate distractions)
The camera mode that allows you to naturally create a shallow depth of field behind a person.
Usually the best frame orientation to capture vertical action.
What is Portrait
An arrangement of subjects in similar positions within the frame.
What is Repeating Patterns
Laying on the ground and shooting up at your subjects is an example of this.
What is Worm's Eye View
The type of focus or depth of field that produces a blurred background.
What is Shallow Depth of Field
The camera mode that allows you to get everything in focus at different distances.
What is Landscape Mode
The subject in crisp, clear focus your photo.
What is Center of Interest
Focusing on activity and facial expression in the same shot.
What is action and reaction
Using elements within the photo to create a stronger center of interest around your subject is an example of this.
What is Framing
Focusing technique that allows for all elements in the frame to be in focus (even at different distances).
What is Deep Depth of Field
The mode to set your lens to so that your camera will automatically focus on your center of interest when you press the shutter halfway.
What is AF (Auto Focus)
Communicating by telling a story, prompting thought, triggering emotions, motivating, and capturing a moment in time
What are the ingredients of a powerful photo
Having your center of interest fill the photo to the edges of the frame.
What is Filling the Frame
Using naturally occurring elements within the frame to carry the eye from one part of the photo to another.
What is Leading Lines
Focusing technique that allows for dominant and subordinate elements in the frame.
What is Shallow Depth of Field
While using portrait mode, getting close to your subject, while leaving expanded distance between your subject and the background helps you create this.
What is a Shallow Depth of Field