A course of photographic composition skills

What are the entry skills of photographic composition? What are the principles and basic elements of photographic composition? Below I have arranged the composition principles and basic elements of photography for you. Welcome to read!

Basic composition principle

(1) Make the photos have a clear theme.

When taking pictures, the photographer should first consider the theme to be expressed in the picture, so as to convey his own ideas. The elements that make up these themes can be people, landscapes, still life or other small scenes. Only by grasping color and emotion for one of the subjects can we show a clearer theme.

A clear theme can often attract the attention of the audience. Therefore, when choosing the performance object, we should also be clear about the object to be presented, so as to make the picture more attractive to the viewer.

(2) keep the picture simple and powerful

Simple pictures usually leave a deep impression. When taking photos, we can start with the color of the picture, so that the color in the picture presents a relatively single tone, so that the photographic works can give the viewer a simple feeling visually; You can also eliminate the messy elements in the picture and make the picture appear concise. In shooting, simple pictures can attract the attention of the audience.

(3) Effectively convey picture information

In a photographic work, the picture presented by the photographer can often convey more information, such as the color of the picture, the shape and material of the object, etc. And the viewer will get a more real and intuitive feeling, such as the fallen leaves in the picture will reflect the shooting season. Different pictures can convey different information, which makes photography rich and interesting.

Basic elements of composition

A beautiful picture is inseparable from the most basic points, lines and surfaces. Knowing more about these simple composition elements and being good at using them can make the picture simple and clean. According to the shooting purpose, these basic composition elements are freely combined in the picture, thus forming a vivid and real picture.

(1) midpoint in the diagram: convergence visual center.

Small dots in the picture can often attract the attention of the viewer, make more attention focused on this tiny point, and make the visual attraction brought by the picture more concentrated. It can be a kind of food that can attract viewers' attention at infinity, or it can be a concentration of many small points to make viewers' vision more concentrated, or it can be a more prominent object that can attract their attention. The appearance forms of dots are diverse, but they can attract the attention of viewers and become the center of condensed vision.

(2) Lines in the picture: guide the direction of sight.

A line can be formed by connecting multiple points, or it can be the trajectory of point movement. The lines in the picture can usually be intuitively felt, or they can be virtual through the performance of a scene. No matter what kind of lines, they can attract the viewer's attention.

(3) The face in the picture: constitutes the geometric modeling.

The surface can be formed by connecting multiple points at different positions, or by stitching or accumulating lines. Face has a good performance effect in photographic composition, and it can also enhance the three-dimensional sense of photographic pictures.

Organization and arrangement of pictures

(1) represents the subject of the visual center.

When taking pictures, Hang Chang will have a clear object of performance, which is the visual center and the main body of the picture. The subject can be a single scene or a combination of multiple scenes. For example, you can choose to take a flower as the main body or a large area of flowers as the main body. Different subjects can bring different visual feelings to people, but the scenery presented will become the center of vision.

(2) a foil body that acts as a foil.

In addition to the main body, there are often foil bodies in the picture, which can set off the main body to a certain extent and show more main features. At the same time, the picture will also show a clear sense of hierarchy because of the appearance of peers, which is a scene with clear priority in the picture and enhances the realism of the picture.

(3) How to choose the most suitable background

The choice of background can play a good role in the performance of the subject. If a picture can only give a messy background, then the subject in the picture will not be well reflected; On the contrary, if the background is simple and clean, it will make the subject consciousness more prominent. Therefore, in the composition, we should consider the choice of background in advance to add points to the performance of the main body in the picture.

(4) Ingeniously use the foreground to decorate the picture.

In a painting, we can not only include a foil to set off the main body, but also choose the foreground to decorate the picture. Foreground often plays a very good decorative role in a photographic work, which makes the subject in the picture more natural and friendly and makes the subject to be expressed more vivid when the foreground is rarely embellished.