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Friday, February 2, 2018
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I'm Back

Hello Everyone. I haven't been to this blog in a while, but I am now more motivated to return to add new material. I'm going to introduce a few elements of photography such as colour and composition in next few posts.

For today, the topic is composition. If one has to explain what photographic composition is, it's how the content of the image is framed by the camera in order for the eye to move within the photo. There are many different ways a photo can be taken.  One way is to move around the subject, another is how close or far away you are from the subject.  I'm using tabletop photos today because it's cold to go outdoors, and there is not much colour in wintertime.

Framing

I've purposely "arranged" the coin and the peppermints in this photo. The arrows and the direction of the arrows demonstrate how they frame the coin. Of course this photo is "set-up" and is too obvious.

Here's another "set-up"

The tomatoes are positioned to enclose the eyeglass case.

Here's a more subtle example of framing. The parts of the eyeglasses that hang on your ears are called "temples". The temples criss-cross and help to frame in the coin.

Another subtler example of leading lines and framing.

Framing of the popcorn kernels frame the coin.

Yet another example

 An improvement to the above photo.

The added small tomatoes help fill in  empty space in this photo.

Also, odd numbers within a photo create a better photo, than equal numbers which 

create too much "balance" within the picture frame. The term "balance" simply means how the 2 halves or even 3 thirds are equally "weighted" so that the picture is not too "heavy" on 1 side or  in 1/3 of the photo.

Of course, all of the photos here were "set-up". Nevertheless, when you are outdoors and are doing let's say landscapes, you can use nature outdoors to compose. The shoreline on a beach can be used to create a "leading line" to direct the viewer's eye to let's say, a person.  Tree limbs and leaves can be used when there is too much blue sky. As well, these 2 things can be used to frame a subject such as a house or a person.

So that's it for today.

I'll continue with colour in the next post tomorrow.

Have a great day or night.

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com

(that email address is so named because that is related to my main blog.

That blog is oldantiquetoys.blogspot.com