A few days ago we began to go over the top ten rules of composition for photojournalism. Most of us are pretty new to photography, so these rules help us think about how our picture will look to our audience and whether or not our message will be properly interpreted.
Rule #1: Get down on your subject's level. One would think this rule would be easy to follow, but that is not necessarily true. Say you wanted to photograph a person or object lying on the ground or maybe something that is at an awkward angle or position. When applying this rule to my photography, I learned that sometimes it is difficult to capture a photo at eye level, but when you do the shot turns out much better than it would have from a bird's eye view. This picture is of a car used in my physics class for a lab we did.
Rule #2: Use a plain background in order to emphasis the subject. Sometimes when I'm about to take a picture I won't even realize that the background is so distracting that my audience will not be able to appreciate the shot i wanted to capture. Our eyes can see in 3D and can therefore distinguish between objects, colors, and patterns, but a picture is taken in 2D and images can sometimes be misconstrued. I found this above dandelion around some vegetation at my school and thought that the blurred green background would contrast and highlight the stark white of the dandelion.
Rule #1: Get down on your subject's level. One would think this rule would be easy to follow, but that is not necessarily true. Say you wanted to photograph a person or object lying on the ground or maybe something that is at an awkward angle or position. When applying this rule to my photography, I learned that sometimes it is difficult to capture a photo at eye level, but when you do the shot turns out much better than it would have from a bird's eye view. This picture is of a car used in my physics class for a lab we did.
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