PHOTOGRAPHY

Composition

n. giving form by putting together or combining various elements, parts or ingredients

The most important thing to do in 2D art.

Its the combination of the feel of art and experience, and sure a lot of physicological knowledge.

Composition is about balancing images in a picture. What should be the focus, how it should be placed and many more. And all the end, its an art.

How to make a good composition?

Just like a good book, a good photograph should have a nice story inside. Above is an example of a story of a nail that replacing screw on a docking boat. The photographer don't know the real fact on the replacement of the screw. The actual story will only be depends on each viewer interpretation. By having a story in a picture, it will add the value of an art photography.

In basic, a photographers often borrowed ideas from the fine arts and laboured with rules of composition that were, for them, only of use after the fact as a tool to analyse the finished image rather than to create it.

'The significant difference between photography and other art forms is its unique ability to record simply and in unbiased detail, something that is there'

(unattributed)

Rules of composition

• Simplify, simplify
• Golden Section
• Rule of Thirds
• Dynamic Symmetry

Dynamic Symmetry

Scale

Fig 7. Giant Bonsai

Formal Elements:

Point(s)

Normal human being, will only have one reception object at one moment of time. More than that, our mind will have too many stimulus and the message will be blurred. It is best to have one simple point to focus for a photograph.

Line

Line can be brought into a picture to make a certain impression for an image. The Line also should follow the "Point" rule above. The only difference is that the object of Line is in the form of line. The line can be a foundation to have a shape, described below.

Line can also be defined as the boundary of an object with its sorroundings.

Optical Line can be produced when several objects forms line that chatch the eye.

Shape

Form

Texture

Pattern

Tone

Colour