Slammed: 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Composition rules of photography

The Rule Of Thirds
'You know that little annoying grid that is always an option on your camera? Ya well turns out that actually has a purpose.' Granted it was hard traveling at 60MPH but I managed to focus the mountain in the right intersection of the grid.

Balance
This was shot as I was driving to Seattle, the balance part
comes into play as the cambered M3 is the main focus
and the miles of horrendous traffic is the background.

Lines
An awesome picture (If I do say so myself) of downtown
Seattle. I took this picture as we were stuck in the miles
upon miles of endless traffic. The lines of the buildings
speak for themselves.

Symmetry and Patterns
Shot while filming a BMX edit in Bend's OldMill district.
As the picture speaks for itself, even with the main focus
Zach's 180, the picture really does shine through with the
stores of OldMill bringing in some symmetry.

POV (Point Of View)
This picture was taken on the deck of my cousins house
in Bellingham Washington. Overlooking the Puget Sound
Ocean Bay we find one of the rarest and nicest days available.

Background/Foreground
Bored in class I found myself aimlessly taking pictures
of random crap. Then I realized how intriguing this picture
actually was. I think this gives good perception of the
background and the foreground.

Depth
Fairly amazing how a camera can make a picture
look completely and utterly flat... and how a camera
can make your picture 100% 3D with the coolest
depth of field you could imagine.

Framing
Not exactly the best example of framing a picture but to me
the Cascade mountain range frames the bottom while the
fade of red to blue frames the top. Just a new way to look
at how to frame a photo.

Cropping
This is one way to make a true statement and focus solely on
the subject material presented to you. While it's always a good
idea to make your background presentable and something
interesting, occasionally it's better to give your camera
one thing to focus on.

Breakin the rules
While traveling at mach-5 I was surprised my camera took
in any light at all, after all everybody knows mach-5 screws
with image-recoding devices.