This document provides guidelines for compositional techniques in photography, including the rule of thirds, use of leading lines, and lines of symmetry. The rule of thirds involves placing the dominant subject off-center, about one-third from the edges, to allow for negative space. Leading lines, such as those created by positioning a subject along the points of a triangle, add power and stability to an image. Vertical symmetry involves splitting the frame in half with an imaginary central line, which is effective for architectural and cityscape photography to showcase sizes and shapes on either side of the line.
This document provides guidelines for compositional techniques in photography, including the rule of thirds, use of leading lines, and lines of symmetry. The rule of thirds involves placing the dominant subject off-center, about one-third from the edges, to allow for negative space. Leading lines, such as those created by positioning a subject along the points of a triangle, add power and stability to an image. Vertical symmetry involves splitting the frame in half with an imaginary central line, which is effective for architectural and cityscape photography to showcase sizes and shapes on either side of the line.
This document provides guidelines for compositional techniques in photography, including the rule of thirds, use of leading lines, and lines of symmetry. The rule of thirds involves placing the dominant subject off-center, about one-third from the edges, to allow for negative space. Leading lines, such as those created by positioning a subject along the points of a triangle, add power and stability to an image. Vertical symmetry involves splitting the frame in half with an imaginary central line, which is effective for architectural and cityscape photography to showcase sizes and shapes on either side of the line.
every image balance, by offsetting your thirds dominant object or subject by one third, you can make room for negative space that can draw your viewer’s eye to the subject.
Your image would divide into thirds both
horizontally and vertically. Leading lines
Triangles can be use by position your subject in ways that
create points of a triangle. A triangle adds power, it is a very stable structure. Lines of symmetry Ver ti ca l sy m m etr y- Thi s i nvo l ves sp l i tti ng your fi el d of v i ew i n ha l f b y d raw i ng a n i ma gi na r y l i ne, ver ti ca l l y thr o ug h the exa ct centr e of yo ur co m po si ti on. It i s g r ea t use f or ci ty sca p es a nd a r chi tectura l photog ra phy.
Usi ng ver ti ca l sy m metr y to ca p tur e a si ng l e
bui l di ng o r a r ow of bui l d i ng s on ei ther si d e of the str eet, you’r e v i sua l l y p r esenti ng thei r si zes a nd sha p es.