Workshop 1: camera composition

 

Rule of thirds:

• chops the screen in 3 horizontal and vertical areas
• puts shot in a balanced position
• where the lines cross, it is the area where to put the main subject of interest.
• Changing the camera height to the same as the subjects makes the shot more interesting, better.

As an example of all of the composition rules, I took a photo of this cactus.

In this picture, I tried to put it in the top left corner.

Lighting:   

• if there are some lights on and some lights off it make the shot more interesting to watch 

 In this picture I left the cactus on the same part of the rule of thirds grid, however, I have changed the lighting, on the blue. I did so by putting a blue screen on my laptop, switching off the light in the room, and putting the brightness of the laptop all the way up.

Foreground and background:

The main thing that it does, it makes the shot more interesting to watch. 

In this picture, I left everything the way it was in the previous picture, but now the cactus is a little bit more in front of the wall, which makes the picture look less boring and the wall more dynamic in a way.