Digital Photography and Imaging-Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative
Media--Taylors University
LECTURES
Week 2: Introduction to Composition
Basic Composition:
-Focal Point: A strong focus point is essential in a good composition
because it helps viewers's eyes naturally settle on the important parts of
your design first.
-Scale& Hierarchy: Scale is often used to help in communicating
hierarchy by drawing attention toward and away from certain elements,
indicating their importance to the communication.
-Balance the Elements: A good technique for mastering asymmetrical balance
is to think of each element as having a 'weight' to it. Smaller obkects might 'weigh' less than larger objects and heavily textured
elements might 'weigh' more than flactly colored elements.
-White Space: White space is mostly known as “empty space” to balance up the
main focus of a composition. White space can help boost your design’s
clarity when used strategically and overall look by balancing out the more
complicated and busy parts of your composition with space that helps your
design to breathe.
Rule of Thirds:
The Rule of Thirds is the process of dividing an image into thirds, using
two horizontal and two vertical lines. This imaginary grid yields nine parts
with four intersection points.
Fig 1.1 Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Thirds is a way to:
-Use composition techniques that are in line with what's naturally pleasing
to the eye
-Creatively use negative space
-Create conversation between the subject and background
Golden Ratio:
The Golden Ratio is a mathematical ratio. It is commonly found in nature.
When used in a design, it fosters organic and natural-looking compositions
that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The Golden Ratio is a useful
guideline for determining dimensions of the layout. One very simple way to
apply the Golden Ratio is to set your dimensions to 1:1.618.
Fig 1.2 Golden Ratio Sample
Tutorial
DEMO
Collage elements layering & composition.
Refer to the video tutorial to start doing your collage.
Fig 2.1 Tutorial Video
Exercise
We need to choose our collage's design elements to be cut out and compose
it. Before composing, we should have a pre-compositing of our collage's
design. We can find the elements through some magazines or brochures.
My Pre-composition:
#1
Fig 3.1 Pre-composition #1
#2
Fig 3.2 Pre-composition #2
#3
Fig 3.3 Pre-composition #3
My favourite pre-composition belongs to #1. After reviewed to Mr Fauzi, I
decided to choose #2 be my final composition.
Fig 3.4 Final Composition
REFLECTION
My first lesson was learning how to create a physical collage. This exercise
helps me stimulate my creative and hands-on skills. Designers can't just learn
to create their work on a computer, so that when we lose electronics, we lose
all skills too. This is why the teacher asked us to learn create a physical
collage. The choice of style, elements used and the arrangement of the collage
all have a big impact.I created three different styles of work to compare
which one is more impressive. I spend a lot of time selecting elements because
it's important. Mr Fauzi gave me some suggestion of my works, this help me a
lot.
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