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Pattern

Orderly combination of shape, line, or color


Pattern can help echo the character of a photo
Catching attention
Random patterns
Slight variation in a pattern
Pattern in common places
Texture
Adds realism (sense of touch) to a photo
Sharp (hard) light highlights texture
Especially important for close-up and b/w shots
Side lighting highlights texture
Most portraits use front lighting to decrease texture
on skin
Using light for depth
Sometimes hard light is inappropriate for illustrating
shape and depth
Soft side lighting can give a sense of shape and depth
without high contrast
Portraits
Still life
When shape/depth is more important that texture
Size and space
2D pictures distort depth, relative size, and distances
Include reference item
Include parts of the fore- or background
Use a frame
Be creativemaybe you want to distort

Giving perspective
LinearLines which converge into the distance
Diminishing sizeobjects further away are smaller
Aerial perspectiveatmosphere creates haze, which
lightens objects farther away
Cut offs
Avoiding cutting out parts or wholes of people or main
subjects
Avoiding cutting out the path of a moving object
Give the
object
somewhere
to go
Ahmad Fathur Rahman bin Hasmiy
MPP141070
high angle
High angle from the subject
Low angle
Low angle from the
subject
EYE level/normal angle
Eye level from the subject
PAnning
A moving object become static but the background still moving
panorama
silhoute
Picture that the background is brighter than the
subject and make the subject black but people well
know what is the subject
Zoom in ZOOM OUT
We use the bulb setting or slow shutter speed and we
zoom our lens
Zoom out
Zoom in
CREATIVE LIGHTINg
system
We use the flash as a slave them we put out of the
camera body

Reflection
Take the reflection of the object

There is only you and your camera.
The limitations in your photography are in
yourself

-Ernst Haas
Thank you

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