Thursday, September 15, 2016

10 Breaking the Rules of Composition

Creative Blur
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.


Photographers lives through their eyes. The basic way of photographic seeing is an essential step in being able to communicate photographically. In mastering composition, one must cultivate the ability to see shapes, lines, forms, masses, etc., and not to just recognize objects. But when the rules of composition are knowingly "broken", then the image can often become more unique and creative.
Extreme Rule of 3rds

Photo Assignment: Try 5 different breaking the rules of composition techniques in photography, or even invent some of your own to make your photo compositions more creative. We are going to go out and shoot one specific technique (your choice) for three class days, and two after school, or weekend days a different technique each time for a total of five techniques). Starting with digital and for the final roll, we are going to start working with BW. Make a contact sheet and add your five best examples to your blog, explain what technique is being broken and how.


Tilted Horizon
Blog Assignment: Find some examples of breaking the rules of photographic composition. Find 5+ different examples of the ones listed on this post... post your found examples to your blog and title with the technique used.
Over exposed
Unusual Focus
Juxtapositioning


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