1. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I. Get Tight – 9 slides Using Framing & Design Copyright © 2003 - 2009 Kenji Tachibana

2. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Fill The Frame: Focal point It’s very important to fill the canvas with the subject to make the story clear. Unless your story is a mystery, make the focal point obvious. The image area other than the subject is the negative space, background. And everything in the background must contribute directly to the story. Crop-out all irrelevant image detail.

3. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Lighting Is Everything: My reason for shooting is to bring out ‘my take’ on any subject and lighting is a huge part of it. Make it yours too. Seattle downtown is a veritable goldmine of great architectural details. The late afternoon lighting on this subject caught my eye. I captured it in full tonal detail. But, it was ‘processed’ into a low-key night shot. The black background was not black. It was ‘burned down’ in the lab work (Photoshop) phase.

4. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Pack & Unpack for Story: Facts 1.Subject – Very striking architectural detail in its in its natural environment. 2.Lighting – Late afternoon hard edged sun light coming from the side. 4.Exposure – Full-detail normal exposure image processed to look like a low- image processed to look like a low- key night shot. 5. Story – My take of the Arctic building found in downtown Seattle.

5. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Applied Design: Pattern recognition The bold gold lines draws the basic X pattern design idea. And it grew directly from the scene elements. The X is made up of both straight and curved lines. The dotted line overlays the 1-point perspective going up and away from the viewer. The cast and area shadows were intensified for drama and to unity the composition. Take a design class from Marc Meyers

6. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Examples: More fill-the-frame images The composition analysis in the previous example was an after-the- fact analysis. I try not to let my thinking interfere with my shooting. My actual shooting is inspired by my Intuition (it sees) and given guidance by my Feeling (it judges).

7. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Image Enrichment: 2 nd Reading Build in second and third reading elements. Elements such as the mini and micro-mini water drops, blades of grass, or the moon surface detail. View your image as a design piece with: o Line, curve, and point o Perspective, shape, and form o Curve, diagonal, and square o Texture and repeating elements o And others… Marc teaches Art 210

8. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Test Your Design: Remove the color to see the design. Good design can be rotated, flipped, or reversed which is all easy to do with digital images. The original scene can also be viewed with a mirror (flipped) or viewed through squinted eyes. The point is to get a ‘fresh look’ of the original scene or the captured image…

9. Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Get Tight: Using framing and design Summary: Design is always an aspect of my image making process. I was born with the ability to see light with an artist’s eye and to work with the image as a designer. I worked as a professional photographer for years in Los Angeles. I also worked locally as a computer-interface and web-usability-specialist designer for Microsoft. Lot of my successes had to do with paying attention to details, working hard, and learning from my mistakes.

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