Monday, February 9, 2015

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Rule of Thirds - The concept of dividing a photograph with 2 horizontal and vertical lines to produce a guide for subject placement so as to create a photograph natural to a viewer. The intersection points of the lines should be at interest points and indicates the balance of the photograph.

2. Perspective Photography - Refers to the concept of taking photographs using distanced objects relative to your position as elements, essentially using perspective, for example, pinching a person's face from far away in a photograph.

3. Distortion (optics) - A projection in which straight lines remain straight from a perspective.