Contents
Needed for this class
- a camera or cameraphone
- a small object and background
- a group of similar tiny objects and background
Review
Juxtaposition, angle of view
From America at Hunger’s Edge, The New York Times, September 2, 2020
Photos by Brenda Ann Kenneally
Composition
These compositional principals help you create a visual hierarchy in your photographs.
Diagonals – Sloping lines
Photographer: Steve McCurry
Leading Lines – lines in the photograph that lead the eye to the main subject
Photographer: Steve McCurry
Patterns – repeated elements. Break the pattern for visual interest
Photographer Edward Burtynsky
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.
Photographer: Steve McCurry
Figure to Ground -the relationship between the subject and the background sometimes described as negative and positive space.
Calla Lily. 1988. Photographer: Robert Mapplethorpe. 
El Toro, Madridejos, La Mancha, Spain. 1996. Photographer: Michael Kenna 
INDIA. Taj Mahal, Agra, 2002. Reflection of the Taj Mahal from the point of view of a man in a yellow boat.
Photographer: Steve McCurry
ASIA. BURMA. Rangoon. 1995. Photographer: Steve McCurry. 1995. 
AFGHANISTAN. 2006. In a society in which there is a scarcity of new goods, waste products are often given a second life. In this case, a young man has transformed old car tyres into buckets. With the bundles of rubber piling up around him, the potential for new creations is endless. Photographer: Steve McCurry 
Subhas Chandra Bose Statue, Calcutta, West Bengal. 1986. Photographer: Raghubir Singh
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