LVA PHOTO SCHOOL: composition

Welcome to LVA PHOTO SCHOOL! Today’s zoom lesson was all about composition and the design principles that make photos look good while directing your audiences’ eye to the focal point. Basically, composition makes you control minds.

Here’s a quick recap of what we learned:

• UTILIZE rule of 3rds, angles, leading lines, framing, and layering TO ACHIEVE balance, space, movement, contrast, and emphasis in your photos.

• GET CLOSE!

• How can you shoot this differently?

• Have a focal point

• Look out for distractions

• Control your audience’s mind

• Use your grid on your phone

• You can use multiple compositions

You can tune into our zoom class from April 2, 2020 below to listen to the lesson and see the lecture. The composition photo challenge follows: try it out and tag me on instagram using #LVAphotoschool.

Tune in April 3, 2020 for a class on lighting!

LVA PHOTO SCHOOL: COMPOSITION

Learn to train your eye to make artful, storytelling images through photography using design principles and photographic compositions.

Composition Challenge

RULES:

1. Always have a focal point

2. Use a composition if challenge is design based + vice versa

3. Try to shoot in well-lit areas

4. Practice social distancing!

Scavenger Hunt:

• Salt + pepper shakers with positive space

• Fruit with negative space

• Portrait of a pet or person framed

• Centered composition with leading lines

• Layers with a window

• Self-portrait with rule of 3rds (get creative! No selfies!)

• Pet’s perspective of the outside

• Break a pattern with contrast

• Up close and personal: framing or layers with a portrait

• Visually interpret blue with angles 

The Essentials.

Here's a quick recap of how spring semester 2010 has been going: class, the NU bus, Missy McLamb Photographers, The Daily Tar Heel, interviews, coffee, Cadbury Mini Eggs, and a 50 mm f/1.4  manual lens.

Here's a quick recap of some shots for class:

This was for my "composition" assignment. This displaced garage band moved inside to practice on a January Saturday night.

This was for my "light" assignment. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a father pushes his daughter into the clouds at Herman Park.

This was for my "moment" assignment. Baby Annabelle squeezes her mom's finger as she eats grape jelly for the first time at a post-mass Sunday brunch.