Light and Lens: Chapter 2 - Notes

Composition and Design Principles:

Anything touched by light can be photographed, photography = a subtractive process, lead by the deliberate intentions of the photographer

Principles:
1. Unity and Variety: cohesive shots, with distinct and separate moments
2. Emphasis: a placed focal point
3. Scale and Proportion: establish a mood, can empower or disenfranchise your subject
4. Balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial
    - NOT just about the subject's placement, can also be achieved by color/value, texture, and contrast
5. Rhythm: Progressive, alternating, or none

Elements:
1. Line
2. Shape
3. Space
   - Actual: 2D area enclosed in the viewfinder/edges of print
   - Pictoral: the illusion/sense of depth (flat v. infinite planes)
   - Virtual: within the confines of the computer screen
   - Pos/Neg: dark v. light, subject v. blank space, what is or is not captured
          ie. figure ground
4. Texture: tactile sense, relates to all humans
5. Pattern: can unify objects with shape, color, and space
6. Symbolism