Composition in Photography

One of my first and favorite assignments in my photography class this year (10/14/22) was dealing with different compositions in my photos. There are many different compositions and guides you can use when taking photos that are used best for different situations and scenes to make your photo stand out. This was a really fun assignment and its something that you use in almost every photo you take. I use these compositions a lot and I really like the photos that result from using them.

Compositions

- Rule of Thirds

- Leading Lines

- Simplification

- Depth

- Symmetry

- Framing

Below are my favorite photos from my assignment and a little bit about them.

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This is one of my photos using the Rule of Thirds.

This was one of the first photos I took in this class, this is one of the many lights bringing life to the football field on Friday nights game days at my school. The Rule of Thirds positions this photo to the Right side of the frame instead of being dead centered in the photo.

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This is a photo I took using what's called Leading Lines.

This is a picture of my twin brother, I took this in the stands overlooking our local high school Football field. The Leading Lines Composition uses the seats in the stands as guides leading toward the main point of the photo which is my brother.

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This photo was taken with the composition Depth with a little bit of framing as well.

This photo has 3 main Depths the first one being the buildings and stands, the second being the colorful large trees behind the buildings, and lastly the hills with the logged clear cut and woods around it. There is also a bit of framing as you can see the wood wrapping around the bottom and left side of the image. This picture shows a little of the area around our school which I think looks cool and in all looks really good to me.