Composition Flashcards

1
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Camera angles examples

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  • High angle
  • Low angle
  • Bird eye view
  • Eye level
  • Hip level
  • Ground level
  • Overhead
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What is a viewpoint?

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Apparent distance and angle from which the camera views and records the subject

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Framing

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Drawing focus to the subject in the photo by blocking other parts of the image with something in the scene

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4
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What is cropping?

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Cropping is the removal of unwanted outer areas

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Leading lines

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lines that appear in a photo that have been framed an positioned by the photographer to draw the viewer eye towards a specific point of interest

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S-curves

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Is a line that travel back and forth horizontally through your image as the eye proceeds vertically through the scene.

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Rule of thirds

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Subject of the image is placed at the intersection of the dividing lines or along one of the lines itself

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Symmetry

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The two halves of the image are mirror images of each other

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9
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Scale

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reefers to the overall physical size of an artwork or object in the artwork. We always relate scale to the size of the human body

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Proportion

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Comparing size of objects, or amount of one thing to the whole

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Perspective

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refers to the sense of depth or spatial relationship between objects in a photo, along with their dimensions with respect to what viewer of the image sees

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Linear perspective

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Creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface.

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