Three elements of photographic structure

The three elements of photographic composition are introduced as follows:

Three elements of photographic composition: shooting angle, shooting distance and shooting height.

shooting angle

The shooting angle is also called the horizontal angle: it is the angle formed by the optical axis of the camera lens and the apparent horizon of the shooting object, also called the shooting direction.

The shooting angle is divided into five aspects: front, front, side, back and back.

Front angle: the camera is facing the subject, and the angle between the optical axis of the camera lens and the line of sight of the subject is 0. Through frontal shooting, you can get a serious and symmetrical effect, and the picture is dull and the three-dimensional sense is slightly poor, so it is often used when taking ID photos.

Front Angle: The angle between the optical axis of the camera lens and the line of sight of the subject is 45, which is between the front and the side. The three-dimensional sense is strong, the picture is not rigid, and the subject can be highlighted well. Is a common angle.

Side angle: the angle between the optical axis of the camera lens and the line of sight of the protagonist is 90 degrees. When taking a single photo, in order to highlight or avoid a certain part, you can also shoot the side.

Back side angle: The included angle between the optical axis of the camera lens and the line of sight of the photographed person is 135, which is between the back sides. Under normal circumstances, most of them use the subject's line of sight to guide, emphasize and highlight the subject, or achieve the effect of blank space. Mainly to guide the subject's line of sight to people's line of sight.

Back angle: the angle between the optical axis of the camera lens and the line of sight of the subject is 180. Shooting the back of a character, depicting the character's personality and thoughts and feelings through physical movements, the picture is implicit and gives people rich imagination.

Shooting distance

The shooting distance affects the performance of the subject and the environment, which is generally divided into: distant view, panoramic view, middle view, close view and close-up.

Foresight: the picture contains a wide range of scenery, mainly showing the scenery, environment, atmosphere and momentum where the scenery is located. Most of them are used to shoot big scenes, which will bring great momentum to people.

Panorama: Represent a certain time or a specific object, put the event or object in the main position of the picture, and set off the main object through a specific atmosphere and environment. Panorama is smaller than the foreground and larger than the middle.

Mid shot: The picture introduces the main part of an event in detail, focusing on the relationship between people involved in the event.

Close shot: Compared with the middle shot, the characters become the main part of the picture, enabling the audience to see the subtle expressions on the faces of the characters.

Close-up: highlighting a certain part of the subject, such as the part above the chest of a person or a certain part of an object, is often used to depict the thoughts of characters, express their mentality or emphasize the characteristics of a certain part.

Shooting height:

There are three shooting heights: elevation angle, flat angle and depression angle.

Elevation: from bottom to top, the horizon is very low, giving people a sense of grandeur and height.

Boxer: the most commonly used, close to human visual habits, is conducive to highlighting the foreground figures.

Depression angle: Top-down shooting angle, suitable for shooting large scenes.