Related tones of photographic composition method

When choosing a photographic picture, we should fully consider the color factors of foreground, middle scene, background and subject. Too simple will be monotonous, too complex will be messy, which requires us to find a beautiful order law in simplicity and complexity. Order is one of the laws of formal beauty. The order of forms can be divided into two categories:

① Master-slave rule

When people aim the lens at the main peak in the distance, especially when they look at the mountains with a wide-angle lens, they feel that other mountains are short in the sky. And this contrast between height and body shape naturally forms a master-slave relationship. Low peaks surround tall peaks.

In other words, the diversity of forms can constitute the richness of vision, thus improving the interest of vision. In the same picture, when shooting different shapes with great differences, the area and size ratio of the shapes can be adjusted by direction, distance and angle to form the basic tone relationship of the picture image. The focus image of the general subject plays a leading role, while other images echo and supplement. There is a master and a slave, and the two contrast and set off each other, thus forming coordination.

② Uniformity

An excellent news picture should not only have individuality, but also have generality. It is not blunt to express individuality and seek change on the basis of commonness. Looking for the same in the difference, looking for the difference in the same. In other words, the overall tone of the picture form should be consistent, but the details should be changed. In the formal expression of news photography pictures, through the application of the principles of "approximation" and "gradual change", we can form a closer internal relationship between images, produce a group of images that echo each other, and form an image tone with rich and diverse characteristics and unified order and law among the whole.