What is Composition?

1.  Composition is the arrangements of visual elements within the frame of a photograph.
2.  It is important to understand and utilize composition in photography because there are many elements of composition that combine to achieve an effect in a picture.
3.  A snapshot is a casual record of some event or person or object; it is a memory.  They are taken simply by pointing the camera and clicking the shutter.
4.  A photograph is an artistic interpretation of an event or person or object.  Photographs are meant to tell the viewer something about the subject.  It is treated differently than a snapshot.  They are composed and all of the details must be planned out before the picture can be taken.
5.  Photography is the art of discovery.
  a.  Photography is interesting to me because it is a way that people from anywhere can communicate.  It is like a language that the whole world can speak.

Camera Basics Quiz

Quiz A:

To take these pictures, I had to use many different functions of the camera to achieve my desired results.  For my first shot, to have a small depth of field, I had to use a low fstop.  My second picture was a moving object that wasn't blurry.  To do this, I had to use a high shutter speed to freeze the movement in the picture.  My third shot was a picture without any grain.  To do this, I used a low ISO.  Finally, for my fourth picture, I had to take a blurred motion selfie.  To achieve this, I had to set a self timer and right before the camera took the picture, I had to move.  I got the blurred motion because I used a slow shutter speed.  During this unit, I have learned how to manually set a camera to get a lot of different types of pictures.  I learned about how to make pictures blurry or focused with the aperture, how to capture movement with the shutter speed, how to take clear and grainy pictures with the ISO, and how to take pictures and make the lighting look different with white balance.