The document discusses various photographic composition techniques including the rule of thirds, symmetry, lines, angles, framing, perspective, portraits using look space, active space, and foreground/background focus. It provides examples of landscape, portrait, and action photos that demonstrate different compositional techniques like placing the subject off-center, including diagonal lines, using natural frames, varying perspectives and angles, illustrating a subject's point of view, and manipulating depth of field.

1. RULE OF THIRDS
These portraits illustrate the rule
of thirds. With the main subject
being on one side of the
photograph.

2. RULE OF THIRDS
This landscape photograph
illustrates the rule of thirds. This
is because the main subject isn’t
central it is on one side of the
photograph.

3. SYMMETRY
This portrait illustrates vertical
symmetry as everything is
basically exactly the same on
either side.

4. HORIZONTAL, DIAGONAL AND VERTICAL
LINES
These photographs demonstrate the
attention to different types of lines.

5. INTERESTING ANGLES.
These shots demonstrate that
taking photographs from different
angles other than eye level can
create a more interesting
photograph.

6. NATURAL FRAMING
For these two shots I used natural
framing. It created a very natural
and interesting looking photograph.

7. PERSPECTIVE
This photograph creates a very flat
looking image as there is no depth
to it at all.
Having taken the picture on a
diagonal there is much more depth
as you can see what is along the
wall.

8. PORTRAITS USING LOOK SPACE
These shots illustrate ‘look-space’.
Which allows us to see past what is
on the photograph and to create
our own interpretation at what the
person is looking at.

9. MOVING PEOPLE
This photograph
demonstrates active space
which allows us to see
where the person is moving
to.

10. FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND
This photograph demonstrates This photograph demonstrates
that by having a large aperture that by having a smaller
and a short depth of field it aperture and a long depth of
allowing the main object in the field it allows the picture to be
foreground to be in focus and the clear from the foreground to
background to be blury. the background.
F/4.5 F/25
Shutter speed – 1/20 Shutter speed – 2sec