Composition skills of mobile phone photography

Lead: Everything can get twice the result with half the effort as long as it follows the rules, and shooting is no exception, especially mobile phone photography with weak hardware. This is why we must study composition and follow the golden rule and the proportion of TIC-tac-toe composition. When shooting a mobile phone, we should think about people or scenery to emphasize and highlight, abandon those general, superficial, cumbersome and secondary things, arrange the foil appropriately, and choose the environment to make the work higher, stronger, more perfect, more concentrated, more typical and ideal than real life, so as to enhance the artistic effect.

Photographs taken by Jiugongge composition method

In photographic composition, the picture is divided into three parts horizontally and vertically, and the intersection of lines is called the center of interest. When observing a photo, the eyes will be attracted to the interesting center first, so try to arrange the main things near the interesting center when taking pictures. Of course, when using the trisection method, you can also put the scenery on the golden section line, which will be more beautiful from the visual point of view, such as buildings or the horizon. The photos taken in this way are beautiful and will not be abrupt, which can improve the visual effect of the pictures in essence.

Gold spiral synthesis method

When it comes to composition, people will think of the old-fashioned composition method, or the nine-grid composition method or the frame composition method, but how to apply it to photos is impossible. Here we have a deep understanding of it.

How to make the picture active, apart from color, only work hard on composition, so there are many kinds of composition, of which the most used is the nine-square grid composition. When it comes to Jiugongge, senior photographers may know it, in fact, junior players also know it, but there are other names for it. Tick-tac-toe composition Why is this composition widely known? Because its usage rate is too high, and the subject matter is not limited. People, documentaries, landscapes and other themes are all suitable, and the most important thing is that they are simple and easy to understand.

Schematic diagram of composition method of Jiugongge

In actual shooting, we can intuitively divide the picture into left, right, upper and lower sides and divide them into three equal parts, and then connect these corresponding points with straight lines to form tic-tac-toe games in the picture. The picture area is divided into nine equal parts, which is well known to all? Jiugongge? .

Schematic diagram of composition method of Jiugongge

Jiugongge puts characters in the left third or right third of the picture. When shooting, we should take the environment and the characters as a whole, and choose the position of the characters with the changes of their movements.

Schematic diagram of composition method of Jiugongge

Simply put, it is to put the subject on four points (or lines) and divide the picture into three parts. Don't let the subject be in the middle, which will meet everyone's aesthetic requirements. Note that in composition practice, we should constantly pursue novel composition forms according to the needs of expressing content, and we should not copy them mechanically, which is completely limited by them.

Schematic diagram of composition method of Jiugongge

In addition, the nine-square grid is also conducive to confirming one-third of the horizon or referring to the camera viewfinder and display screen to confirm whether buildings and lines are straight, thus reducing our later workload.

Spiral composition attracts attention

The second spiral composition method is a special composition rule. This type of composition will attract the attention of the observer through the invisible spiral line, creating more symmetrical visual lines and a comprehensive and eye-catching visual experience.

Schematic diagram of spiral composition method

Schematic diagram of spiral composition method

Schematic diagram of spiral composition method

Applying the golden spiral to photography can improve your chances of taking excellent photos. Compared with the static dichotomy, the golden spiral provides a flowing line when we capture the picture with our eyes. The golden spiral always rotates in your picture, from top to bottom, making your picture composition more changeable.

Schematic diagram of spiral composition method

Schematic diagram of spiral composition method

No matter what your theme is, other elements in the picture are distributed along the spiral line, and its lines will be long and lively.

Composition method of highlighting theme

Frame composition, in the film, frame composition pays more attention to the change of subjective perspective, making itself a third person, thus giving the picture a sense of story. Choosing a framed foreground can draw the audience's attention to the scenery in the frame and highlight the main body. Forming a frame around the main image can create a mysterious atmosphere, just like a person peeking at a place from a hiding place.

Schematic diagram of frame structure

Schematic diagram of frame structure

We can follow the model in the movie, try to get close to the picture, focus on the distant subject and blur the foreground to achieve the narrative sense in the movie.

Schematic diagram of frame structure

Schematic diagram of frame structure

Schematic diagram of frame structure

On the other hand, framing composition helps to integrate the main image with the landscape, giving the photo greater visual impact. Pay attention to different ways to interpret the image of the subject, spend more time observing the subject and walk around the subject. When you look at the subject from different angles, you will find that there are many angles to shoot.