- color
- lighting: natural or artificial
- point of view, angle, vantage point: where is the subject in relation to the camera?
- focus: where the viewers’ eyes are drawn
- foreground
- space, complexity
- background
- location: urban/rural,
- time: era (history), time of day, season,
- subject:
- people in it
- their clothing
- features, facial expressions –>emotions
- actions: what are they doing
- is there a narrative that the image tells?
- objects
- context
- metadata: artist, collection