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Composition Techniques II & Assignment

Lesson 2.1.3

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• Rule of Thirds

• Leading Lines

• Filling the Frame

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Reminders & Important Dates

• The focal point is often the main subject or the area that is most important in a photograph.

• Compositional Techniques are used to create exciting, dynamic images.

• Rule of Thirds: Uses a grid to place the focal point on the interaction of the lines or the lines to add interest.

• Leading Lines: Uses natural or human-made lines to direct the viewer through the image or to the focal point.

• Filling the Frame: Fills most, if not all of the image frame with the main subject. It is used to create emphasis and ellimate distractions in the background.

In the last lesson you learned:

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2.1.3

Unit 2

• framing

• simplicity

• symmetry

Vocab

Objectives

Overview

• DEFINE framing, simplicity, symmetry as composition techniques

• IDENTIFY how framing, simplicity, and symmetry are used to compose a photograph

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RUBRIC

Compose TWO photographs that clearly demonstrate TWO different compositional techniques.

OBJECTIVES

2.1.3

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*These should be new images that YOU took!

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+ Assignment Genially

+ Editing Options

+ Orientation

+COmpositional Techniques

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Carefully compose and take TWO images that demonstrate TWO different compositional techniques of your choice.

• 📸 Compositional Techniques: the rule of thirds, filling the frame, leading lines, simplicity, framing, and symmetry.
• You CAN use the same subject for both images.

• You will be prompted to identify the compositional technique & orientation for each image before you submit your images.

Compositional Techniques

The three compositional techniques you will learn today are:

• framing

• simplicity

• symmetry

Much like a musical composition where the individual notes come together to make a song, composition technique in visual art refers to how the individual parts are put together to make a piece of art within a frame. As artists, it is important to learn these techniques to create beautiful and impactful artwork.

Composition

Techniques

• What composition technique was used to capture this photograph of Lake Erie March Region?

• How did the use of this composition technique enhance the composition?

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What is framing & why use it?

framing

Framing is the use of a border or some other structure to box in or highlight your subject.In the photograph on the right, the photographer captures the main subject, the Taj Mahal, through an archway from the Agra Fort. The archway forms the border or the frame and draws the viewer's eyes to the subject.

Framing helps to:

• give context
• give a sense of depth or layers
• draw the viewer's eyes to the subject

Framing, as a composition technique, uses natural or man-made objects such as doors, windows, arches, tree branches, fences, and tunnels to frame a subject within the image. Frames typically outline, or box in, the subject.

Why use Framing?

Filling the Frame

Framing

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Framing gives the image a Sense of Depth

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Foreground

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In this photograph, the photographer uses portrait orientation. The handshape creates a simple frame as the fingers encompass the sun. The frame gives the photograph a sense of depth or layers by having the hand in the foreground and the sunset in the background. It also draws the viewer's eyes to the focal point and the main subject in the photograph, the sunset.

Everyday objects looked at in a different or unique view can be used as a frame in a photograph.

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Natural Frames

In the photograph, the photographer uses portrait orientation and natural elements, including the trees and the mountains, to frame the lake. A sense of depth is created by the trees in the foreground, the lake and the boat in the middle ground, and the mountains in the background. The frame also draws the viewer's eyes to the boat in the middle of the lake and the mountains beyond it.

F R A M I N G E X A M P L E S

Simplicity

Simplicity removes unnecessary or distracting elements inside the image frame. Composition is simple, so the subject stands alone or with a limited number of competing parts.In the photograph on the right, all other elements have been removed or cropped out to avoid distracting from the main subject, the dog. The background is a plain, solid blue.

A photograph can be composed using simplicity by:

• removes distracting elements

• keeping single subjects in focus

• keeping the background (negative space) SIMPLE

• using only one or two colors in the background
• blurring a distracting background
• Use the fill the fill-the-frame technique

Simplicity works to eliminate unnecessary elements within an image frame to emphasize only the subject of the frame. Simplicity is not simple. It is deliberate and takes considerable skill to execute. When successful, simplicity plays a significant role in conveying the meaning of the image.

Why use Simplicity?

In this aerial photograph, the photographer captures the sea and beach with no other distracting elements in view. The focus is on the contrast between the aqua of the seawater and the white color of the beach sand.

Bird's Eye View

In this photograph, the contrast between the white and the gray draws the focus to the trees. The photographer makes use of the play between the white fog and the darker trees to draw the viewer's eyes to the trees peeking out of the fog. There is nothing distracting the viewer from the trees in this photograph.

Hide & Seek

In this photograph, the background is blurred to keep the focus on the plant stem and hide the distracting elements in the background.

Standing Tall

In this photograph, the contrast between the white mouse and the bi-color background helps the mouse stand out without adding distracting elements.

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Simplicity There is only one subject and the background is blurred.

Rule of Thirds Notice that the eye that is closest to the viewer is in line with the Rule of Thirds grid.

Fill the Frame The subject (positive space) is filling up most of composition.

Combining Compositional Techniques

S I M P C I T Y E X A M P L E S

SYMMETRY

Symmetry is balance. A symmetrical photograph can easily be divided in half horizontally or vertically.In the photograph on the right, the road in the center divides the image frame evenly between the left and right sides.

The photograph below shows Madely Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The water surface reflects the mountains rising in the background, creating symmetry along the waterline. The mountains extend upward from the line, and the reflection of the mountains extends downward from the line.

Symmetry is about balance. The composition technique involves dividing the image into two equal parts. Symmetry can be achieved by capturing true reflections of subjects, such as in the photograph below.

Why use Symmetry?

Symmetry can also be achieved by capturing single or different elements that look like reflections of each other. For example, in the photograph below each column supporting the arch is a different element, yet the left and the right side are like reflections of each other.

REFLECTIONS

Radially

Horizonally

Vertically

Subjects in an image frame can be captured such that they divide the frame and show symmetry in THREE ways:

• horizontally
• radially
• vertically

In this photograph, the road running the length of the image divides the frame vertically into two equal sides. This makes the composition symmetrically balanced.

Vertical Symmetry

In this photograph, if you divide the image the image into two equal parts vertically it is symmetrically balanced.

Vertical Symmetry

VERTICAL SYMMETRY

FACES are VERTICALLY SYMMETRICAL

Hortizontal Symmetry

Radial Symmetry

Radial Symmetry

RUBRIC

Compose TWO photographs that clearly demonstrate TWO different compositional techniques.

OBJECTIVES

2.1.3

+ Directions

*These should be new images that YOU took!

+ PRO TIPS

+ tech help!

+ Assignment Genially

+ Editing Options

+ Orientation

+COmpositional Techniques

+ Link to Project Padlet

Carefully compose and take TWO images that demonstrate TWO different compositional techniques of your choice.

• 📸 Compositional Techniques: the rule of thirds, filling the frame, leading lines, simplicity, framing, and symmetry.
• You CAN use the same subject for both images.

• You will be prompted to identify the compositional technique & orientation for each image before you submit your images.

Compositional Techniques

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Framing

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Symmetry

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Simplicity

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Frame

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Thirds

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LEading

Rule of

Compositional Techniques

Orientation

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Review the Portrait Orientation

Review the Landscape Orientations

Portrait

Landscape

IMAGE orientation

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In today’s lesson, you learned:

• three compositional techniques - framing, simplicity, and symmetry
• framing outlines the subject and draws attention to it;
• simplicity eliminates unnecessary elements within the image frame; and symmetry helps create balance in an imagemethods to use
• framing, simplicity, and symmetry for composing a photograph

If you were a member of CCA's photography club you may still have Adobe PhotoShop on your computer.

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Video Recap:

Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds divides an image frame into thirds both horizontally and vertically. Point of interest or the subject should be placed along the lines or the intersection of those lines.

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Video Recap

Leading Lines

Leading lines are lines from natural or human-made elements in the image that lead the viewer's eye towards the main subject or through the image.

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Symmetry

The image can be easily divided in halves!Symmetry provides balance by dividing the image frame in half, with the subject of the photo divided equally vertically or horizontally.Symmetry can be also created by centering a subject with radial symmetry extending outward.

This is a free app you can download on your phone. It is very user-friendly and creates professional-looking photos using a wide variety of tools and filters.

Snap Seed App

Rubric

• 💡 Pay attention to lighting. Do you have enough light or too much? Look at how and where the light falls on your subject. If you're indoors, take the image near a window!
• Avoid distractions in the background. Clear out cluttered or distracting elements.
• Try taking your images at different angles, some close-ups, and some further away to add variety.

PRO TIPS

This photo editing application should be on your computer. It has a wide variety of filters, presets, and tools to select from and will be used in Unit 4.

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Use portrait orientation when:

Portrait Orientation

• The subject is TALLER than it is wider.
• Action or movement is happening vertically.
• If you want the subject to take up more of the vertical space.

• The subject is WIDER than it is taller.
• Action or movement is happening horizontally.
• To capture the expansiveness of a subject like a landscape.

Landscape Orientation

Use landscape orientation when:

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Simplicity

The simplicity technique eliminates all distracting elements within the image frame that might draw away from the main subject by removing elements, enlarging the main subject, or blurry the background.

Rubric

Framing

Framing uses natural or human-made frames to create a border around the subject.Frames can be human-made, like a window or door frame, or natural like an arch or tree branch.

• 💡 Pay attention to lighting. Do you have enough light or too much? Look at how and where the light falls on your subject. If you're indoors, take the image near a window!
• Avoid distractions in the background. Clear out cluttered or distracting elements.
• Try taking your images at different angles, some close-ups, and some further away to add variety.

PRO TIPS

Video Recap

Fill the Frame

The fill-the-frame technique captures a subject that fills most or all of the image frame, leaving no room for distracting elements.Subjects often extend beyond the image frame!