5 ELEMENTS TO CREATE A GREAT PHOTOGRAPH

1. Lighting

Light defines colour and emotions, establishes proportions and structure, and improves the look
of the picture. The image exhibits masterful usage and management of light, whether added or
natural. Natural sources, such as the sun, can produce light. By employing tools like flashbulbs or
lights, people are able to change or generate it. Clouds or people covering a lamp with a fabric
veil can also disperse light. Photographer needs to determine the direction of the light so that the
subject is not facing the light source.

2. Colour

Colour is used by photographers to create a variety of effects. People may infer emotions,
location, and season from colour. A surface that is flat may use colour to provide the impression
of area and move the viewer's attention around a composition. "Warm" and "cool" shades are
typically contrasted with one another. Colours that are warm such as orange, red, and yellow
generate feelings of friendliness, liveliness, and enthusiasm. However, cool colours like blue and
green evoke calmness, melancholy, and despair.

3. Time

The capacity to freeze a moment in time and history is the very essence of photography. No other
kind of media can capture time and events with such immediateness and historical accuracy.
Photographer also need to determine the purpose of the picture in order to set the best time to
take it. Photography session can be during the day, noon, sunset or even at night based on what
kind of photo should be taken.
4. Rule of Third

Rule of Third also can be applied to produce a balance space and well-composed photograph. By
overlaying a nine-square grid over a picture, the rule of thirds, a common compositional guideline
in photography, may be better understood. By splitting it into thirds on both the horizontal and
vertical axes, the image would be divided into nine sections. Photographer can play with space
and depth as well to help positioning the subject so that the subject is not in the middle of the
photo. The image must feel well-composed for the spatial balance to be present.
5. Focus

The figures in a photograph are in focus when they are crisp or clear. When a photographer
adjusts the camera to get hazy, rounded edges, they have achieved soft focus. Aperture
adjustment by setting the f-number also allows photographer to control the amount of light
passing through the lens. This also helps to determine the focus of the subject in a photograph.
The aperture and lens's restrictions are used by photographers to produce fine detail of the
subject in an image.