Using proportion in photography is an important concept to grasp.

Sometimes people use distorted proportion for humorous or comic effect.

However, you don't want to accidentally use it when you're trying to show a
person or thing as it ought to be.

Proportion is about the relationship of size and space between different

objects. If you're taking a portrait, you probably don't want to cause
unwanted distortion on your subject, making them look too tall, too short,
too wide or just plain weird.

People will accept bit less than perfect proportion, but there gets to be a
point where something looks unnatural. You need to know if you intend to
cross that line or not.

10 Elements of Composition in Photography

This episode and blog post are part of a series we're creating to expand
upon this blog post.

As a list of 10 elements of composition, I thought the post touched on some

useful ideas. However, I decide that it may help if we expanded a bit more
on each of those elements. I hope this gives you some ideas to use in your
compositions.

Two Types of Proportion in Photography

How do you tell what's important in a photo? There are a number of ways
to draw the eye. One of the methods is proportion, or comparing the size of
one object to another in a photo.

If two or more subjects are pretty much the same size, you can infer that
they're both equally important. If one is a bit larger than the other, you tend
to get the idea that one subject is more important than the other.