Basic stills camera work and composition.

Composition:

Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.

Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.

Rules of third is one of the most popular rules in photography and amongst artists. Using this rude of thirds helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures. And also helps get rid of ‘tiny subject surrounded by empty space’ syndrome. This process works like this-: imaginary lines are drawn diving the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically, where these lines intersect you place the important elements there.

Good places would be- third of the way up, third of the way in from the left.

 Bad places would be- right in the middle, right at the top, right at the bottom, away in the corner.