What is the principle of photography?

The basic principles of composition are: balance and symmetry, contrast and viewpoint.

Balance and symmetry are the basis of composition and a logical proportional relationship, and their main functions are to stabilize the picture. The sense of stability is a visual habit and aesthetic concept formed by human beings in their long-term observation of nature.

Clever contrast can not only enhance the artistic appeal, but also clearly reflect and sublimate the theme. Contrast composition is to highlight the theme and strengthen the theme. There are all kinds of contrasts, ever-changing.

Viewpoint composition is to attract the audience's attention to the center of the picture. Viewpoint is the name of perspective, also called vanishing point.

Extended data

First, the origin of the composition

The name composition comes from western art, and there is a course called composition in western painting.

In the theory of Chinese painting, the name of composition is not composition, but layout, or quotient. In other words, photographic composition is transformed from artistic composition, which we can simply call framing.

Whether it is the layout in Chinese painting or the framing in photography, it only involves part of the composition, and it cannot contain the full meaning of composition. Therefore, it is more scientific and accurate to use the word "component" uniformly.

Second, the form of composition

1, level (sense of stability)

2. Vertical style (serious and dignified)

3. S-shape (elegant and changeable)

4, triangle (triangle is empty, acute angle stimulation)

5, rectangular (artificial has a strong sense of harmony)

6, round (full of tension)

7. Radiation (with a sense of depth)

8. Central style (clear theme and strong effect)

9. Step by step (with rhythm)

10, decentralized (bound by boundaries and free to develop outward)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Composition (plastic arts terminology)