Photo Composition Info Pt.1

    Hello you guys! Long time, no see. So yes, I’ve been busy learning the new techniques that photographers use to take photos. I even learned Mise-en-scene (however I’ll explain that later). Yesterday, in class, I ended up doing a practice assignment identifying certain elements such as camera shots, angles, composition, and mise-en-scene that were in a video that was shown. It was a mistreating assignment. Although I didn’t not know what kind of answer my teacher was looking for, I explained how each kind of element was used to convey meaning in the scene. Hopefully I did well. Now onto the good stuff, some kinds of photo compositions would be framing, rule of thirds, depth of field, deep focus, shallow focus, and focus pull. 

Framing

     This is using elements in your screen to create a gram around what you’re trying to take a picture of on your device. So essentially, there’s two frames.

Rule of Thirds

      This is what photographers imagine when taking a photo (or they can just turn on grid mode). You would envision two horizontal lines and two certain lines that evenly divide the space up. Then you would place the subject on those lines to draw attention to them without them having to be centered. This creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition. 

Depth of Field

     This shows the object that is the furthest and closest to the camera in focus. This is a little hard to do because you camera can only focus at point point at a time but with a narrow DoF and large DoF, you’re able to make it happen. 



Deep Focus

     This focus includes foreground, middle-ground, and extreme-background objects are all in focus. This keeps everything in the gram in focus. Since everything is focused, it guides the viewers’ attention to anything specific in the shot and is used mainly in close-up shots.

Shallow Focus

     In this focus, one point of the frame is in focus while the rest is out of focus. This is used to emphasize one part of the frame more than the other. 

Focus Pull

     This focus is different from the others. This is when the focus actually changes during the shot by adjusting the focus from one subject to another. 

    Now I will use these techniques and apply them to the photos that I’m going to take. I didn’t give you any visual examples so my test trials if the photos will be used as both examples. See you next post!

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