1. Photo composition How To Capture The Moment

2. What will you learn? Recognize the value of quality pictures Recognize the basics of photographic composition Recognize common photographic problems

3. The photograph is a story, a series of connected sentences Compose your photo to increase its expressiveness Why Compose A Photo?

4. Dominant Subject One main subject Composition helps viewer know where to look Susanna jakubik

5. Dominant Subject Susanna jakubik

6. Dominant Subject

7. Susanna jakubik

8. Dominant subject Lillie edwards

9. Dominant subject Jordan chappelear

10. Dominant subject Maxx keener

11. Dominant Subject Susanna jakubik

12. Dominant subject Maxx keener

13. Rule of Thirds The subject is placed off-center Divide the frame into thirds horizontally and vertically, and place the subject at an intersection

14. Rule of Thirds

15. Taylor mckeown

16. Rule of Thirds Ryan do

17. Rule of Thirds Gia robert

18. Rule of thirds Gabrielle metoyer

19. Rule of Thirds Camrie mcwilliams

20. Rule of Thirds Susanna jakubik

21. Rule of Thirds Caroline petrie

22. Rule of Thirds Lillie edwards

23. Rule of Thirds Susanna jakubik

24. Rule of Thirds Maxx keener

25. Rule of Thirds Callie grove

26. The photographer uses a fast shutter speed to give the effect of stopping motion Freezing Action Susanna jakubik

27. Freezing action Jody herring

28. Freezing action Gia robert

29. Freezing action Tori aitken

30. Freezing action Lillie edwards

31. Freezing Action Susanna jakubik

32. Freezing Action Susanna jakubik

33. Catches strong facial expression or body language Timing is vital Emotion Susanna jakubik

34. emotion Gia robert

35. emotion Callie grove

36. emotion Lillie edwards

37. emotion Daric miller

38. Emotion Susanna jakubik

39. emotion Susanna jakubik

40. Emotion Susanna jakubik

41. emotion Jody herring

42. emotion Susanna jakubik

43. emotion Susanna jakubik

44. emotion Autumn soliman

45. emotion Susanna jakubik

46. emotion Susanna jakubik

47. emotion Jody herring

48. Taken from below Makes small things look huge Adds interest to the subject Worm’s Eye View Arva bharmal

49. Worm’s Eye View Susanna jakubik

50. Worm’s Eye View Aiyana baptiste

51. Worm’s Eye View Brandon smith

52. Worm’s Eye View Taylor mckeown

53. Worm’s Eye View Susanna jakubik

54. Worm’s Eye View Sarah grizzle

55. Worm’s Eye View Jordan chappelear

56. Worm’s Eye View Jordan chappelear

57. Worm’s Eye View Riley labus

58. Worm’s Eye View Jessica salais

59. Worm’s Eye View Felton blaylock

60. Worm’s eye view When shooting women, try to avoid worm’s eye Men LOVE it, though! Susanna jakubik

61. Taken from above Can make big things appear smaller Bird’s Eye View Susanna jakubik

62. Bird’s Eye View Jessica roach

63. Bird’s Eye View Gia robert

64. Bird’s Eye View Dominic guerra

65. Bird’s Eye View Daric miller

66. Subject is framed by an element within the picture Draws interest to the dominant subject Framing

67. framing Courtney miller

68. framing Caroline petrie

69. framing Susanna jakubik

70. Framing

71. Riley labus

72. 1.Dominant subject 2.Rule of thirds 3.Freezing action 4.Emotion 5.Worm’s Eye 6.Bird’s Eye 7.Framing Composition principles recap

73. Assignment – photo composition identification Locate one photo representing each of the previously discussed photo composition rules – Can be from the web or one you’ve taken Create a “photo composition” subfolder in your “photo journalism” OneDrive folder for storage Label each photo (they should be JPG files) with your last name, composition rule and class period – Smith dominant subject 4 – Smith freezing action 6 Share the folder with Mrs. J via OneDrive by midnight on Tuesday, September 6, 2016

74. Assignment: photo composition photo shoot Using your personal cameras and the seven photo composition rules you learned last week, take three photos of each photo composition rule We will be taking photos as a class on Wednesday and Thursday On Monday, create a folder inside your “Photo Journalism” OneDrive folder titled “[ last name ] Photo Composition.” All photos need to be downloaded from your camera to this folder, and each should be titled [your last name] [composition rule] [photo number] [class period] – Smith dominant subject 1 4 – Smith freezing action 2 4 You will share the entire folder with me via OneDrive (this is a different method of turning in that I think will work better for ya’ll). All photos must be turned in by midnight on Monday, 12 September – You will have time in class on Monday to save, rename and turn in your photos. Bring your download devices!