Finals Review
1. Rule of thirds: Placing the subject off-center in the frame.
2. Balancing Elements: Having similar components in both halves of the frame.
3. Leading Lines: The natural lines in the frame draw your eye through the picture.
4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition): Having a symmetrical picture or a repeating shape or thing in the frame
5. Viewpoint: The point of view from which the shot is taken. ex: bird's eye
6. Background: The background can either provide information about the picture or be simple so the subject stands out.
7. Create depth: Having lots of thing in the fore and background adds layers and creates depth.
8. Framing: Putting the subject in a naturally occurring frame to highlight it.
9. Cropping: Cropping an image can be used to artistically convey an idea by cropping your subject really close or putting them in the very side of the frame.
10. Mergers and avoiding them: Having similar shapes and colors blending together looks bad or having something that looks strange when it blends with the subject ex: having a plant right behind the subject's head
Aperture: How open the shutter is, controls depth of field, used in f-stops ex. f4.5, the higher the number the smaller the opening, the smaller the opening the more depth of field
Shutter Speed: How fast the shutter closes, controls blur/how much action happens in the photo, normal shutter speed are expressed in fractions of a second ex. 1/25
ISO: How sensitive the camera is to light/the quality of the photo, controls grain, usually expressed in doubles ex. 100, 200, 400, 800
When manipulating photos it is ok to do basic touch-ups like levels, cropping, removing red eye, ect. What isn't OK is changing anything about the subject such as the features of their face, body shape, skin tone, ect. It isn't right to advertise someone to sell something if that person doesn't even exist, they've just been edited. For example, society can't tell girls to look like the photoshopped model when she doesn't even look like that.
Environmental portraits: When the surrounding background/environment contributes to the subject and helps tell the photo's story ex. a musician on a stage
Self portraits: When the photo is of yourself
Casual portraits: When the photo isn't formal, just a normal picture
Exposure: the amount of light that enters the camera as the picture is being taken
Depth of Field: how focused objects are in the fore and background
Focal Length: the amount of zoom
Magazine covers...
Early: Drawings, a title and maybe one cover line, looks like a book cover
Poster: One prominent photo that is the center point, title, few cover lines, image is the main feature
Married to Type: Cover lines visually relate to the text somehow, picture and text are equally important
Forest of Words: Photo is not the main focus and its covered up by a bunch of coverlids, words are the main focus
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