Robin Michals | COMD 1340 Photography 1 DO97

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Lab- Week 1 – Composition

2 pts. Take a clear example of each one of the 8 compositional principles in the Steve McCurry video:

1. Rule of Thirds

2. Leading Lines

3. Diagonals

4. Frame within a frame

5. Figure to Ground

6. Fill the Frame

7. Patterns and Repetition

8. Symmetry

Use Image Capture to download your photos to the hard drive of one of the class computers.

Join the class Flickr group: COMD 1340 DO97 Fall 2021

Upload the 8 examples of the compositional principles. Put the photos in an album and label each one with the compositional principal it represents.

Due Sept 7th.

Welcome, Students!

I look forward to working with all of you this semester to make some interesting and meaningful pictures. I hope that we will all have fun and learn to be better photographers.

Class meetings will be in-person in V111.

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    For each homework assignment, upload your work to Flickr and organize it in an album. Send your best work to the class group to participate in the class critiques.
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Week 1 – Photographic Composition

  1. Rule of Thirds – Instead of placing the main subject in the center of the frame, divide the frame into thirds horizontally and vertically and place the main subject at one of these intersections.

Photographer: Roy De Carava

2. Leading Lines – lines in the photograph that lead the eye to the main subject


3. Diagonals – Sloping lines


4. Frame within a frame

Photographer: Steve McCurry


5. Figure to Ground – Figure to Ground -the relationship between the subject and the background sometimes described as negative and positive space.

Calla Lily. Photographer: Robert Mapplethorpe. 1988.


6. Fill the Frame – get closer. Never plan to crop later.

Photographer: Alexander Rodchenko

7. Patterns – repeated elements. Break the pattern for visual interest

8. Symmetry – If you fold the image in half the two haves are very similar and have equal visual weight. Or make it asymmetrical to add tension to the composition.

Resource

In-class lab Exercise

Composition

Homework

HW1 – Composition

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