5 Compositional Techniques
My idea for the magazine article is to interview Juliet's House, a place that fosters, socializes, and takes care of kittens they get from the shelter. They nurture many kittens and make them ready to be adopted! I like to think of them as the middle man between the shelter version of a cat, and the pet store ready version of a cat. I heard from Dr. Altman here on campus that they are always looking for volunteers, and animals are a huge passion of mine- especially cats.
Unfortunately, they suck at replying back to their email in any kind of timely manner. With that being said, although I emailed them a week in advance to this forum being due, they never got back to me. To problem solve, I went to the Guilford County Animal Shelter, and they told me I was not allowed to take pictures of the animals. Two dead ends, so I resorted, ONLY for this blog post, to just take pictures of different things or aspects of the communications building to show that I know how to take these different shots.
Lines:
Looking at this picture, it really can be a few different compositional techniques, but the one I chose was lines. It could also be symmetry or framing, but the use of lines is what caught my eye originally. The staircase gives a specific pattern of lines that is consistent throughout which makes it obvious to see. Another example of lines that is evident in this picture are the bars that are coming from the railing, they create s different focus of the picture and I deliberately did not only take the shot of the railing because I wanted to emphasize that there are multiple ways examples of the same technique present in the picture. Lines is not that hard of a concept to me, but watching the weeks 9 and 10 videos, specifically the ones that were mandatory for lines, helped me get inspiration for what to photograph.
Angles:
Not only ways this an amazing milkshake, but it was seemingly easy to take the picture when I had the proper angle. You may be thinking that not much effort goes into taking pictures of your food for your snapchat friends too see, however, this took me quite a few tries! I chose an angle that emphasizes my milkshake, the most prominent one, and I made sure to make it take up most of the foreground of the picture. My friend Maddie in the back is show casing her milkshake too, but I played with the angle to make hers seem like it is smaller than mine, though it was not. I made sure to make her milkshake a background element, therefore not a main focus of the picture, all while utilizing different angles to showcase how I wanted to execute my vision. Top ten photography composition rules also helped me with this shot because of the fact they touched on viewpoint. This photo, as I mentioned, took me a few tries and that is because the viewpoint I wanted for my specific angle was something I was particular about and I learned that from that video.
Symmetry:
This photo was one of the harder ones that I managed to take, and is supposed to show symmetry. I know that it is by no means perfect, but if you could not see the bottom floor railing at the bottom, the photo would be more symmetrical. This one is not my best work, but it was also hard to find something worth looking at that is not boring or made anyone uncomfortable, like a portrait. Ten top photography composition rules helped me with this shot. The video focused a lot on symmetry, pattern, and balance and that is where I drew inspiration from.
Negative Space:
Negative space is one of the easiest techniques in my opinion, because it is simple to have an object against a blank surface. Negative space even works if you are holding something towards the sky when the sky is just blue with no clouds, which is easy to accomplish as well. This technique has to be my favorite as well- it is very clean cut and simple and I think that gives the picture a certain sophistication that you do not get if you are focusing on another technique, like lines or symmetry. The lamp is the focus, with the blank wall acting as the negative space. Negative space was a technique I caught onto quickly and that was because of the in class activity we did where each group had a different technique.
Rule of Thirds:
This shot was also one of the harder ones for me to take. The rule of thirds is not something that makes total sense to me, but I was able to have a clearer understanding of it by reading the articles on BB. My idea with this image was for the rule of thirds to go horizontally; the top third is the carpet, the middle third is the shoe, and the bottom third are the jeans. Having something different in each third is essential to the rule of thirds, and although this is not the most jaw- dropping and amazing picture I have ever seen or taken, it still fulfills the rule, despite being hard to tackle.
Unfortunately, they suck at replying back to their email in any kind of timely manner. With that being said, although I emailed them a week in advance to this forum being due, they never got back to me. To problem solve, I went to the Guilford County Animal Shelter, and they told me I was not allowed to take pictures of the animals. Two dead ends, so I resorted, ONLY for this blog post, to just take pictures of different things or aspects of the communications building to show that I know how to take these different shots.
Lines:
Looking at this picture, it really can be a few different compositional techniques, but the one I chose was lines. It could also be symmetry or framing, but the use of lines is what caught my eye originally. The staircase gives a specific pattern of lines that is consistent throughout which makes it obvious to see. Another example of lines that is evident in this picture are the bars that are coming from the railing, they create s different focus of the picture and I deliberately did not only take the shot of the railing because I wanted to emphasize that there are multiple ways examples of the same technique present in the picture. Lines is not that hard of a concept to me, but watching the weeks 9 and 10 videos, specifically the ones that were mandatory for lines, helped me get inspiration for what to photograph.
Angles:
Not only ways this an amazing milkshake, but it was seemingly easy to take the picture when I had the proper angle. You may be thinking that not much effort goes into taking pictures of your food for your snapchat friends too see, however, this took me quite a few tries! I chose an angle that emphasizes my milkshake, the most prominent one, and I made sure to make it take up most of the foreground of the picture. My friend Maddie in the back is show casing her milkshake too, but I played with the angle to make hers seem like it is smaller than mine, though it was not. I made sure to make her milkshake a background element, therefore not a main focus of the picture, all while utilizing different angles to showcase how I wanted to execute my vision. Top ten photography composition rules also helped me with this shot because of the fact they touched on viewpoint. This photo, as I mentioned, took me a few tries and that is because the viewpoint I wanted for my specific angle was something I was particular about and I learned that from that video.
Symmetry:
This photo was one of the harder ones that I managed to take, and is supposed to show symmetry. I know that it is by no means perfect, but if you could not see the bottom floor railing at the bottom, the photo would be more symmetrical. This one is not my best work, but it was also hard to find something worth looking at that is not boring or made anyone uncomfortable, like a portrait. Ten top photography composition rules helped me with this shot. The video focused a lot on symmetry, pattern, and balance and that is where I drew inspiration from.
Negative Space:
Negative space is one of the easiest techniques in my opinion, because it is simple to have an object against a blank surface. Negative space even works if you are holding something towards the sky when the sky is just blue with no clouds, which is easy to accomplish as well. This technique has to be my favorite as well- it is very clean cut and simple and I think that gives the picture a certain sophistication that you do not get if you are focusing on another technique, like lines or symmetry. The lamp is the focus, with the blank wall acting as the negative space. Negative space was a technique I caught onto quickly and that was because of the in class activity we did where each group had a different technique.
Rule of Thirds:
This shot was also one of the harder ones for me to take. The rule of thirds is not something that makes total sense to me, but I was able to have a clearer understanding of it by reading the articles on BB. My idea with this image was for the rule of thirds to go horizontally; the top third is the carpet, the middle third is the shoe, and the bottom third are the jeans. Having something different in each third is essential to the rule of thirds, and although this is not the most jaw- dropping and amazing picture I have ever seen or taken, it still fulfills the rule, despite being hard to tackle.
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