Photo Composition
How many photography composition techniques did we discuss on Day 2?
Six techniques:
Rule of thirds
Leading Lines
Framing
Filling the Frame
Symmetry
Negative Space
Happens the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset. The low sun angle diffuses light through the atmosphere, creating soft, warm, directional illumination that is highly flattering for portraits and adds rich textures to landscapes.
Golden Hour
The amount of light that is reaching the camera’s sensor.
Exposure
What was the photo challenge on Day 2: Photo Composition?
Submitting a photo in Black and White
Illuminating your subject from the side (roughly 90 degrees), creating deep shadows and high contrast. It is perfect for emphasizing texture, creating a dramatic mood, and giving a strong sense of three-dimensional depth to your images
Side Lighting
A compositional guideline that divides your frame into a 3x3 grid using two horizontal and two vertical lines. By placing your main subject along these lines or at their intersecting "power points," you create a more dynamic, visually balanced photograph than by simply centering everything
Rule of thirds
Occurs when the light source is positioned behind the camera, directly illuminating the side of the subject facing the lens. It provides even, balanced exposure and eliminates most visible shadows, making it a reliable choice for flattening blemishes, landscape, and portrait photography
Front Lighting
The focus of your photo. It could be anything that you want to intentionally capture in your photo. There are many strategies to point out what this is.
Subject
A compositional technique where you use elements within your scene to border or isolate your main subject. By doing this, you instantly guide the viewer's eye to exactly what they are supposed to look at, add a sense of three-dimensional depth, and provide environmental context
Relies on the sun or ambient environmental light, offering an organic, dynamic feel perfect for outdoor or documentary shoots
Natural Lighting
A powerful composition technique where natural or manmade lines guide the viewer's eye through a photograph. By starting in the foreground and stretching toward your focal point, they create a sense of depth, add visual energy, and tell a stronger visual story
Leading Lines
A photography technique where the primary light source is positioned behind your subject, facing the camera. It separates the subject from the background, creates dramatic rim lighting, and adds a glowing halo effect, though your camera will underexpose the side facing you
Backlighting
The parts that make up the whole. It is how you arrange all of the visual elements in your image like jigsaw puzzle pieces to show what you want and HOW you want
Photo Composition
A powerful composition technique where your main subject takes up most or all of the space in the photograph. By deliberately crowding out the surrounding environment, you force the viewer’s eye directly onto the subject, creating an immediate visual impact and stripping away unwanted background clutter
Fill The Frame
Uses strobes, flashes, or LEDs, providing ultimate consistency and control over direction and color, which is essential for commercial or studio work
Artificial Lighting
A compositional technique where the image is divided into two or more identical or highly similar halves. It creates a powerful sense of visual balance, harmony, and perfection, frequently utilized in architectural, landscape, and street photography to evoke order
Symmetry
Who was the Photographer Of The Day for Day 3: Lighting?
Fan Ho, "The Great Master (of Light and Shadow)", Street Photographer, Film Director, Took "Approaching Shadow" 1954
The relative dark or light intensity in an image that establish depth, texture, and overall mood. The brightest parts are the highlights, the darkest are the shadows.
Tone
This technique uses a large amount of empty space to create a focal point on one part of the image, creating an emphasis on the scale and mood with backdrops such as a clear sky, an empty wall, or a large body of water
Negative Space
One type of side lighting: The light source is placed at a 90-degree angle to your subject, splitting the face perfectly down the middle into light and shadow
Split Lighting
Who is the Photographer of the Day for Day 2: Photo Composition? She took Migrant Mother, 1936
Dorothea Leange
Two lights are placed on opposite sides of the subject, creating highlights on the edges of the subject and leaving a distinct shadow line directly down the middle
Double Side Lighting
The presence of warm colors like yellow, orange, and red that create a cozier feel and a more human look.
Warmth
Which photo composition technique from Day 2 had an example picture of strawberries?
Fill The Frame
One type of sidelighting: The light is placed at a 45-degree angle in front of and to the side of the subject, highlighting one side while leaving the other in deep shadow. This is often used to emphasize jawlines and cheekbones.
45-Degree Sidelighting