Photography I My First elective for Freshman year at Ridgefield High School was Photography I. I learned how to take snapshots and fine art photographs. With our pictures, we edit them with the Photoshop picture editor. We spent most of our time learning diffrent ways to compose images. There are many "Composition Guidelines" to show the viewer what is happening on the image. There are 10 "Composition Rules" that every photographer should know. The first one is, "Rule of Thirds" which are imagenary lines on your photo to add balance to the photo and add give some attention to the viewer. Down here are some of my best works that I edited using the Photoshop program. The second rule is "Balancing Elements", not every object in your photo has to be center alligned. Placing it off center could make the photo interesting, BUT, leaving an empty area in your photo can attract the viewers eye to one location. You want the viewer to see everything in your photo not just on interesting area. This is known as "balancing the weight", you dont want to have an emptyness in your image, make that little area feel important. The third rule is "Leading Lines". When you look at a photo, the human eye is naturally attracted to the lines. There are lines in a photo that can pull our attention to a scene or an object such such as the popular image style that have the lined fence leading to a tree. There are many diffrent types of line that can be used to improve a photo's composition such as, straight, diagonal, curvy, zigzag, radial, and many more. The fourth rule is "Symmetry and Patterns." There are many areas in the world that are bounded with symmetry and patterns just in any ordinary place. Symmetry and patterns are "attention-grabbing" in photo's because they are mainly placed in area's that are not likely. Another excessive usage of "Symmetry and Patterns" is to Break The Symmetry, this presents tension and a central point to a scene. The fifth rule is "Viewpoint." Viewpoint can have a substantial impact on the composition of a photo, take time to decide where a photo should be shot from because it could greatly affect the meaning that the picture is telling you. The sixth rule is "Background." Its important to have a good background in an image. You hve to make sure yuor photo doesn't blend in with any background. Make sure you look for a Plain and Unobtrusive background for your photo so the background isn't attracting the eye of the viewer instead of the eye being attracted to the main object in the photo. The seventh rule is "Create Depth." Creating depth in a picture is very important. In order to create depth in a photo you need to add objects in the Foreground, Middle ground, and Background. Another way you can add depth to a photo is Overlapping. This is when you purposely obscure one object with another. The eigth rule is "Framing." The world is full of natural frames such as trees, archway's, and holes, using these helps you seperate the object from the world. Our last rule is "Cropping." To focus on one subject of the picture you can use the crop tool to exclude the overall surrondings. if you dont crop a photo that need's to be cropped then your photo will lack effect to the viewers eye's because the image is lost in the background, your viewer doesn't know what to look at. Down here you will see my three best images for my photo class.
"Winter Wonderland" This picture was taken by Bryan Souza during Christmas break.
"Dead Flowers" This picture was taken by Bryan Souza outside of Ridgefield High School.
"Puddle" This picture was taken by Bryan Souza outside of Ridgefield High School.
My First elective for Freshman year at Ridgefield High School was Photography I. I learned how to take snapshots and fine art photographs. With our pictures, we edit them with the Photoshop picture editor. We spent most of our time learning diffrent ways to compose images. There are many "Composition Guidelines" to show the viewer what is happening on the image. There are 10 "Composition Rules" that every photographer should know. The first one is, "Rule of Thirds" which are imagenary lines on your photo to add balance to the photo and add give some attention to the viewer. Down here are some of my best works that I edited using the Photoshop program. The second rule is "Balancing Elements", not every object in your photo has to be center alligned. Placing it off center could make the photo interesting, BUT, leaving an empty area in your photo can attract the viewers eye to one location. You want the viewer to see everything in your photo not just on interesting area. This is known as "balancing the weight", you dont want to have an emptyness in your image, make that little area feel important. The third rule is "Leading Lines". When you look at a photo, the human eye is naturally attracted to the lines. There are lines in a photo that can pull our attention to a scene or an object such such as the popular image style that have the lined fence leading to a tree. There are many diffrent types of line that can be used to improve a photo's composition such as, straight, diagonal, curvy, zigzag, radial, and many more. The fourth rule is "Symmetry and
Patterns." There are many areas in the world that are bounded with symmetry and patterns just in any ordinary place. Symmetry and patterns are "attention-grabbing" in photo's because they are mainly placed in area's that are not likely. Another excessive usage of "Symmetry and Patterns" is to Break The Symmetry, this presents tension and a central point to a scene. The fifth rule is "Viewpoint." Viewpoint can have a substantial impact on the composition of a photo, take time to decide where a photo should be shot from because it could greatly affect the meaning that the picture is telling you. The sixth rule is "Background." Its important to have a good background in an image. You hve to make sure yuor photo doesn't blend in with any background. Make sure you look for a Plain and Unobtrusive background for your photo so the background isn't attracting the eye of the viewer instead of the eye being attracted to the main object in the photo. The seventh rule is "Create Depth." Creating depth in a picture is very important. In order to create depth in a photo you need to add objects in the Foreground, Middle ground, and Background. Another way you can add depth to a photo is Overlapping. This is when you purposely obscure one object with another. The eigth rule is "Framing." The world is full of natural frames such as trees, archway's, and holes, using these helps you seperate the object from the world. Our last rule is "Cropping." To focus on one subject of the picture you can use the crop tool to exclude the overall surrondings. if you dont crop a photo that need's to be cropped then your photo will lack effect to the viewers eye's because the image is lost in the background, your viewer doesn't know what to look at. Down here you will see my three best images for my photo class.
"Winter Wonderland" This picture was taken by Bryan Souza during Christmas break.
"Dead Flowers" This picture was taken by Bryan Souza outside of Ridgefield High School.
"Puddle" This picture was taken by Bryan Souza outside of Ridgefield High School.