Photo Assignment - Art, Design & Composition
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
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.
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.