1. Photo composition Rules 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. One main subject Clean background helps viewer know where to look Dominant Subject

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

11. Rule of Thirds

13. Rule of thirds

14. Rule of Thirds

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

17. Freezing action

18. Freezing Action

21. Catches strong facial expression or body language Timing is vital Emotion

25. emotion

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

37. Worm’s eye view

38. Taken from above Can make big things appear smaller Bird’s Eye View

39. Taken from above Can make big things appear smaller Bird’s Eye View

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

41. framing

42. Framing

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

45. 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 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 Create a “photo composition” subfolder in your “photo journalism” H drive folder for storage Submit all seven photos to Mr. Nigrelli via Google Drive by midnight on Friday, September 6