[Introduction to Photography] Ten composition rules commonly used in photography

My understanding of composition is that the reasonable layout of all parts of an object in a photo can achieve a unified, harmonious and orderly whole, conveying a beautiful experience and a kind of thinking about life to the viewer. Therefore, a good photographic work must be an orderly composition that conforms to the aesthetics of the human eye, or a sublimation composition that conveys a touching story.

The composition rules commonly used by professional SLR players have been carefully screened here to accurately match the composition of mobile phone photography, so that every entry-level photographer can soar and stand out from the crowd.

Triangular composition is a common composition rule in both the traditional card machine era and the current SLR. It is widely used and has the best effect. It is especially suitable for taking scenic photos of several people or other subjects. The specific application is to open the nine-grid line of the mobile phone before taking pictures and focus the subject on the intersection point of the nine-grid line. This composition rule is a standard golden ratio in both art and photography, and it is very aesthetic in artistic expression.

Last year, the Hollywood masterpiece "fistful of dollars" surprised the world, and there were a lot of photographic compositions in it. For example, in the following part, the composition rules of trisection and silhouette are used, combined with the cold environment as the background, and the lonely mood of the characters is immediately felt by the audience.

This kind of composition is usually shot in reverse light, which is especially suitable for mobile phones. The photos taken will have the feeling of a large area, especially suitable for taking some silhouette photos with strong contrast between light and dark, sunset on the mountain peak, sunset on the beach and sunset on the river bank. In a word, sunset is the best time to take silhouette photos with obvious contrast between light and dark. When taking pictures, you just need to focus on the people or animals who pose.

There are also some landscape photos with obvious shadows formed by natural sunlight and nature, which can also be expressed by contrast between light and shade, with unique style.

This kind of composition is often used to take frontal portraits, and portraits are close-up portraits, which are used more in the studio. In the era of light photography, the mobile phone can also choose a clean background to easily take a textured portrait in the studio, and only need to use the software to trim the face a little later.

All substances with geometric symmetry in nature or society can be distributed by this composition, which can be horizontal symmetry, vertical symmetry, central symmetry and so on. This composition is also very useful. Symmetrical objects are easy to find, and it is ok to shoot according to the symmetrical structure of the object after finding them. Symmetry is often used in China's traditional architectural art, so we see the most symmetrical objects in China, but everywhere symmetry also requires us to have eyes that are good at finding symmetrical beauty.

In addition, you can also use the phone's own mirror for symmetrical composition. There are many ways, just feeling.

Curves, as well as symmetrical components, can be easily found in nature. Curve is also a kind of geometric line, which is accessible and smooth. Using this curve to compose a composition, with the extension of the curve and line, it is easy to guide people's eyes to the main body.

For example, the curved posture of the Great Wall below is like a dragon, which leads our visual consciousness to the beacon tower, and the grandeur and broad mind of the Great Wall have been greatly rendered.

This composition is often used by many masters in recent years to express retro, creative or storytelling themes. Through a piece of glass, or with a natural rectangular, square, circular frame to conceive, such a composition is often impressive, and the work makes people shine.

Last year, the domestic popular movie I'm not Pan Jinlian was shot with circular composition from beginning to end, telling the absurd adventure of a rural woman going to Beijing to petition. This is the first time that director Xiaogang Feng used this composition, mainly to profoundly reflect the story of Li Xuelian's fake divorce in Liu Zhenyun's novels and to satirize the current situation of officialdom, so as to achieve dramatic effect. The use of mobile phones will never catch up with SLR, but the portability advantage of mobile phones is obvious. I suggest you try different shapes of frames with your mobile phone, which will give you unexpected inspiration and gain.

The same geometric line composition, not to mention. The main body of the photo is arranged diagonally to achieve a sense of patchwork. It is suitable for photographing living objects such as food, flowers and branches, and it is the least suitable for buildings (this will make the photo picture feel unstable and unreliable).

China ancient traditional landscape ink painting is the earliest blank composition, and the literati landscape ink painting in Song and Yuan Dynasties is the peak of the development of China landscape painting. Its painting style is to use blank space in a large area, and only a few undulating mountains, fog, birds, canoes and pavilions are used to set off an artistic conception.

Looking at Professor Li Zehou's description of landscape paintings in Song and Yuan Dynasties in The Course of Beauty may enlighten the application of photography minimalist composition.

In the final analysis, minimalism is to do subtraction in the early shooting of photos and abandon a lot of elements that hinder the subject, thus achieving an artistic beauty.

This composition has been mentioned in the previous article.

The beauty of square composition is that the four sides of the square are equal in length, which gives people the feeling of spreading from the center to the outside, so the stability and balance of the picture are good, which makes people feel comfortable and can also increase the tension and expressiveness of the picture. Some mobile phones, like Xiaomi's, have their own square shooting, so just adjust it and shoot directly.

If photography is divided into four stages. The first stage is to learn the basic knowledge of photography, the second stage is to practice boldly on the basis of photography theory, the third stage is to gradually form your own shooting ideas in a lot of practice, and the fourth stage is to forget the previous theoretical knowledge, record it instantly by experience, and form your own shooting style without being bound by dogmatic theory. The fourth stage is the highest level that photography can reach, and the composition of ecstasy is one of them. The best knowledge is to learn what remains after forgetting. With a seven-foot spear, you can only kill people within a hundred feet. With a sword in your heart and no sword in your hand, you can spend nine days on the moon. This is the supreme state …

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