Design and Composition Project Written by: Samantha MacKay

This Picture is In horizontal format.

When you look at this picture you can see the lines in the picture which help to make it horizontal. Another way is the way that the animals are looking. You can see the angle and the position of the picture which all helps to make it a horizontal format.

This picture is also in horizontal format. In this picture, if it was in any other format, there would be no way that you could get all the mountain in the picture. Although it is the background it is also very important. The people in the front form a line which is like a horizontal line.

This picture is done in vertical format. A picture which goes from top to bottom in format. Each person in this picture is standing up right, almost giving a “follow the lines” effect. Some grass areas are in vertical format, and in the distance you can see the trees are in vertical format.

This picture is in vertical format. The buildings are tall and they go up wards. In the distance, many buildings start to travel upwards, with few to no horizontal lines.

This is leading physiological space. As you can see, there is a fair distance between the man and the end of the page of which he is facing. This means that there is a ‘space’ of which the person can feel comfortable and can see off past the edge of the photo.

Foreground background interplay, is the object in the front having a relation to the object in the back. The Person which comes to view first in this photo, has a distinct relation to that Of the machine in the back. The people in the back are the same type of people as that person in the foreground.

The person in the foreground is pulling on the truck in the background. Since this action takes place there is a very strong relationship between the two objects.

A high angle picture is when you are at a birds eye view looking down at stuff below. In this picture, you are looking down at the people.

A low angle picture is done from a person looking up from a level which is lower from the view point. In this picture you can see the person is up a level higher then what the actual level of the picture was taken. Even though you look at the picture from an even level, you still see the picture from a lower level.

In this picture you are still looking up at the person or object from a lower level. So your focus is upward instead of eye level.

What is evident in this picture is the fact that every object in the photo is at the viewers eye level. As you can see, the horizontal lines allow it to be in horizontal format. Also as you view this picture you will notice that there are no angles. You don’t see them from another angle, but straight on.

Unlike horizontal FORMAT, horizontal lines are photos that have distinct horizontal lines within it. In this photo, in the back area of the picture, you can see the lines in the bricks. You might also notice that the picture is actually in vertical format. Still you can notice that the picture can have horizontal lines which will make the viewer look from side to side.

A symbol of red stripes and bright stars, which represents the country of United States of America. Within this picture, the focal point is the flag. Not only is this picture in horizontal format and goes from one side to the other, but the very strong lines in the flag, also run from Left to right in horizontal format.

The point of horizontal lines is to help the viewer catch the way the picture is suppose to go. Some can be in horizontal format, some can be in vertical format. In this picture the lines in the fabric, help the viewer to look at the top area of the fabric, working one way to another, and eventually working down the picture.

Verticle

Diagonal lines in photos are usually taken from angles. Some of the the objects in the picture show the lines strongly.

The trees have some strong diagonal lines. The bats that hang off the trees are on a slight angle, but hang more so straight.

Leading lines are lines that link two objects together, that may or may not have any distinct relationship at all. In this case, the car that we are viewing out of, following the leading lines connect to the cars that may be really far up ahead.

Although this is a drawn picture instead of a photograph, you can see where the geometric shapes are. In the roof of the building in the center, the windows in the hotel, the towns peoples stores and the cylinders holding the center building together.

In the castle, you can see that there are many types of Geometric shapes.

A distinct pattern which is in the rock or sand picture here. It has repeated colours and shapes which continue on and on and on.

Texture is when a picture ‘blends’ in with everything else in the photo. In this picture the rocks, water and slight land are all blended together. This is a relationship with rock and water, through this texture.

A symbol of a picture is something that represents something else. In this picture, there is a Canadian flag, which represents Canada. (symbol)

High Contrast is 2 colours. Most of the time, Black and white, but it can also be blue and black, red and black, yellow and black etc. In this picture the two objects are in solid black. All the other objects around it are white or black.

Low contrast, is a picture which is in black, white and gray. In this picture there are gray areas, white areas, and some (being few) areas which have solid black areas.