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The Heart & Sole of Composition. Space/Line Assignment Dodge/Burn Exercise. Space/Line Assignment. Create a sense of 3 dimensions in your print How to direct your viewer to the subject in your print. Find and select a line, a compositional element.
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The Heart & Sole of Composition Space/Line Assignment Dodge/Burn Exercise
Space/Line Assignment • Create a sense of 3 dimensions in your print • How to direct your viewer to the subject in your print. • Find and select a line, a compositional element. • The frame of the camera is a compositional devise that begins the process of subtraction. • A single line or shape against a contrasting background attracts the eye through the photograph. • The line may also lead the eye out of the photograph if you are not careful.
Seeing 3D in a 2D space • Prior to the Renaissance, drawing and painting were flat, or icons. • In the Renaissance artists developed perspective.
1 Problem • Picture is upside down like a big view camera. • Camera Obscura means in Italian • Camera=room obscura=dark • First noticed by the Chinese in 4th century A.D. • Arabian scholar Alhazen described it in 10th century • Poked a hole in fabric and displayed a solar eclipse.
More history • 1st Camera Obscura was a room • Shrunk later to a tent. • Shrunk later to a box • Described by Leonardo Da Vinci in his books arount 1480 • Lenses and mirrors added later.
Why does this matter in Photography • We want the impression of depth in a photo. • Adds interest to the subject. • Gives the viewer more information about the subject. • Directs our eye around the composition. • Gives the photographer more creative choices.
Methods to show space • Showing a diagonal line to the vanishing point • Reflections of elements outside the frame. • Overlapping forms. • Size comparison. • Bonus: an exaggerated foreground or a forced foreground will also show space.
What’s this show? • Diagonal line • Size comparison • tone
