Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Assignment 3A and 3B: Working Compositional Strategies

What's wrong with this picture? (Hint: don't do this!)


We will focus on developing useful design strategies for composing strong pictures. Once you become aware of these approaches, with practice, you will naturally begin to work them into your shooting. 

Provide 3-4 examples of each approach in a respective folder, within a folder with your last name, under the assignment folder in UA box. Note due dates:

Assignment 3A
  1. "Rule" of Thirds (Monday, 1/24)
  2. Leading lines (Monday, 1/24)
  3. Isolate the subject, by contrasting with a (simple) background (Monday, 1/31)
  4. Close-ups and/or unusual cropping (Monday, 1/31)
Assignment 3B
  1. Abstractions/"all-over"/decentralized composition (Monday 2/21)

1. "Rule" of Thirds



Further examples:







2. Leading lines








3. Isolate the subject, by contrasting with a (simple) background 










4. close-ups and/or unusual cropping













5. Abstractions/"all-over"/decentralized composition












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