DSLR Artistic & Compositional Photography Series
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
Photos must be taken in manual mode dslr or mirrored camera
Learning to compose your image using the principles of art, design, and composition is critical to your success.
For this assignment you will pick design and composition rules: tesselations, elements of art, principles of design, and composition techniques to creating photo examples from each category.
Create at least 10 Photographs:
Photo 1: Tesselation – repeating pattern, man made
Photo 2: Tesselations - repeating pattern, found in nature
Photo 3: Select one of the elements of art (line, shape, value, form, color, texture and space).
Photo 4: Select a different element of art (line, shape, value, form, color, texture and space).
Photo 5: Select one principle of design (emphasis, balance, harmony, variety, movement, rhythm, unity, contrast, proportion, and scale)
Photo 6: Select a different principle of design (emphasis, balance, harmony, variety, movement, rhythm, unity, contrast, proportion, and scale).
Photos 7, 8, 9, and 10: Choose a different composition technique for each image from the following list:
• Framing the subject
• Backgrounds
• Spot Pattern Contrast of dark and light
• Contrast of sharpness
• Point of view
• Perspective
• S-curve
• Cropping
• Rule of thirds
• Golden mean
• Simplicity
• Getting closer
• Triangle composition
• Strong center of interest.
Learning to compose your image using the principles of art, design, and composition is critical to your success.
For this assignment you will pick design and composition rules: tesselations, elements of art, principles of design, and composition techniques to creating photo examples from each category.
Create at least 10 Photographs:
Photo 1: Tesselation – repeating pattern, man made
Photo 2: Tesselations - repeating pattern, found in nature
Photo 3: Select one of the elements of art (line, shape, value, form, color, texture and space).
Photo 4: Select a different element of art (line, shape, value, form, color, texture and space).
Photo 5: Select one principle of design (emphasis, balance, harmony, variety, movement, rhythm, unity, contrast, proportion, and scale)
Photo 6: Select a different principle of design (emphasis, balance, harmony, variety, movement, rhythm, unity, contrast, proportion, and scale).
Photos 7, 8, 9, and 10: Choose a different composition technique for each image from the following list:
• Framing the subject
• Backgrounds
• Spot Pattern Contrast of dark and light
• Contrast of sharpness
• Point of view
• Perspective
• S-curve
• Cropping
• Rule of thirds
• Golden mean
• Simplicity
• Getting closer
• Triangle composition
• Strong center of interest.