Good photos
1. Explore your options
See the potential photographs in front of your camera
Remember! Print is a flat piece of paper.
Photograph transforms a 3D event into a frozen instant.The scene will be reduced to a smaller size and confined within the edges of the picture format.
CONCENTRATE ON THE ACTUAL IMAGE!
Arthur Leipzig, Stickball, 1950
How much of a scene to show
Robert Frank, Parade, Hoboken, 1955
Get closer to your subject
Lee Friedlander
Jerome Liebling, Blind Home
BRUCE DAVIDSON. Untitled, East 100th Street, 1966.
What is your photograph about?
Jerome Liebling
Instead ofshooting rightaway, stop aMoment todecide whichpart of a sceneYou really wantto show.
Visualize what you want the photograph to look like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJvYxxrLtQg
Sally Mann
Every time you make an exposure you make choices about framing
Ray Metzker
Don’t forget that the background is a part of the picture
Paul Strand, French Boy
Walker Evans
Use the background when it contributes to something.
Eve Arnold
BASIC DESIGN
Single small object against a contrasting background attracts attention
Hiromu Kira
The eye tends to connect two or more spots like a connect the numbers drawing
Don Hong-Oai, Hoops
Russell Lee, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1939
A line is a shape that is longer than it is wide. This is an Ex. of an actual line.
Russell Lee
Ansel Adams
More actual line
Actual lines
Alexander Rodchenko
Implied line
Cindy Sherman
Implied line
Cindy Sherman
Psychology of lines
Horizontal > calm, stability
Vertical > stature, strength
Diagonal > activity, motion
Zigzag > rapid motion
Curve > gracefulness, slowness
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Shape - tonal changes across the subject can give illusion of depthTwo or more objects invite comparison of their shapes
Man Ray Dennis Stock
Multiple spot, lines, or shapes can create a pattern that add interest and unites the elements in a scene
Alexander Rodchenko
Alexander Rodchenko
Man Ray
Objects that are close together can be seen as a single shape
Contrast attracts attention
Man Ray
Try to emphasize subjects with camera angle, use scene to reinforce emphasis-Set tension! Remember! A centered symmetrical arrangement can be boring.
Annie Leibovitz
People look first at the sharpest part of a photograph --your point of view can have a strong influence
Shape of light and dark
Flor Garduno
Composition -- the rule of thirdThe basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontallyand vertically) so that you have 9 parts. With this grid in mind the ‘rule of thirds’ now identifies four importantparts of the image that you should consider placing points of interest in as you frame your image.
Not only this - but it also gives you four ‘lines’ that are also useful positions for elements in your photo.
The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo becomesmore balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally. Studies have shownthat when viewing images that people’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally ratherthan the center of the shot - using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image ratherthan working against it.
Arno Rafael Minkinnen
The relative distance of objects from the lens and from each other affects perspective = the illusionof 3D in a flat 2D photograph
Toshio Shibata
Think Space! Overlapping of objects create depth
Suyeon Yun, Birthday Card
Unifying principles of design (a successful art is called the gestalt of a work)1. Repetition
Fred R. Conrad
Annie Leibovitz
2. Variety
James Hill
3. Similarity
James Hill
4. Rhythm
Margaret Bourke-White, contour plowing
Timothy O'Sullivan
5. Balance
Pancho Gonzales, 1972
6. Emphasis
Andrew Biraj
7. Economy
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Edward Weston
7. Continuation
Fred R. Conrad
Observe & express texture
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/12/18/nyregion/1194817121773/lens-world-express.html?scp=1&sq=Todd%20Heisler&st=cse
Edward Burtynsky
Seeing beauty in unlikely place
My neighborhood
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