ELEMENTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

LINE

• A STRAIGHT OR CURVED GEOMETRIC ELEMENT THAT IS GENERATED BY A MOVING POINT AND

THAT HAS EXTENSION ONLY ALONG THE PATH OF THE POINT
• MAY BE STRAIGHT, CURVED, OR A COMBINATION OF THE TWO
• CAN BE SOLID, DASHED OR INTERRUPTED, IMPLIED, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL
• CAN BE VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL, OR DIAGONAL
 ORIENTATION OF LINES

• VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL LINES CONVEY A SENSE OF STABILITY OR PROVIDE A STATIC FEEL

TO AN IMAGE
• HORIZONTAL LINES CAN INDICATE DISTANCE
• VERTICAL LINES CAN INDICATE HEIGHT, BALANCE, STRENGTH
• DIAGONAL LINES CONVEY DYNAMISM
 SHAPE

• FORMED WHEN A LINE, OR MORE THAN ONE LINE, CLOSES OR CONNECTS

• ARE TWO-DIMENSIONAL
• CAN BE THE OUTLINE OF AN OBJECT—FAMILIAR OR UNFAMILIAR
• DIFFERENT SHAPES CAN COMBINE TO CREATE A NEW SHAPE WHEN THEY INTERSECT AND
OVERLAP
• SHAPES MAY SURROUND AN AREA TO CREATE ANOTHER SHAPE
 FORM

• THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF SOMETHING

• IT IS THREE-DIMENSIONAL
 TEXTURE

• THE VISUAL OR TACTILE SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS AND APPEARANCE OF SOMETHING

• IN LIVED EXPERIENCE, TEXTURE CAN BE SMOOTH, ROUGH, SLIMY, WET, HARD, SOFT, BUMPY, SHINY,
ETC
• LIKE FORM, TEXTURE IS REVEALED BY VARIATIONS IN TONALITY AND PRESENTED IN TWO
DIMENSIONS
• SMOOTH OBJECTS MIGHT HAVE REFLECTIONS
• ROUGH OBJECTS MIGHT HAVE AGGRESSIVE AREAS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW WITHOUT
REFLECTIONS
• VISUAL CUES PROVIDE CLUES TO TEXTURE
 COLOUR

• LIGHT SENT THROUGH A PRISM OR A DROP OF WATER REVEALS A LITERAL RAINBOW OF

COLORS
• COLOR HAS THREE PROPERTIES: HUE, VALUE, AND SATURATION
• HUE IS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE COLOR (E.G., BLUE, RED, YELLOW, ETC.)
• VALUE IS THE RELATIVE BRIGHTNESS OR DARKNESS OF A COLOR
• SATURATION IS THE INTENSITY OR PURITY OF A COLOR
 SIZE

• THE CAMERA, LENS, AND PRINT CAN RENDER LARGE OBJECTS SMALL, OR SMALL OBJECTS
LARGE
• THE SIZE OF COMMON OBJECTS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH GIVES THE SCENE A SENSE OF SCALE
• TO EMPHASIZE SIZE OF A SMALL OBJECT, GO CLOSER
 DEPTH

• PERCEPTION OF DEPTH IS DEPENDENT ON THE OBJECTS IN THE FRAME, CHOICE OF

COMPOSITION, AND YOUR PERSPECTIVE IN RELATION TO THE OBJECTS IN THE FRAME
• THE STRONGER THE DELINEATION BETWEEN FOREGROUND, MIDDLE GROUND, AND
BACKGROUND, THE STRONGER THE SENSE OF DEPTH
• ONE MAY USE TEXTURE GRADIENT AND SIZE GRADIENT TO SHOW DEPTH
 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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