{Blog 4} ~ Photographic Terminology

Framing and composition

Framing is one of the most significant main key features of photography. It helps the audience to understand the artist's intentions, when they are using elements of a scene to create a frame within your picture. It refers to the technique of drawing focus to the subject in the photo by blocking other parts of the image with something in the scene, by giving the audience to emphasize what's happening behind the shot, or something being spotted. Furthermore, composition is how the elements of a photo are arranged. How it's been presented in the shot. A good photograph will take many different parts and combine them into a pleasing whole, how an artist tells a story within the confines of a single frame.

Filling the frame

Filling in the frame is basically images that are close ups in the shot, which means that you can only see the image by itself in a tightened position, showing no background in the frame. It can bring the audience's connection between them and the object. Filling the frame, makes the image more intimate, as the viewer is much closer to the subject. So there's greater engagement and connection with the image.

Rule of thirds

A line in a photo is a point that moves, leading towards something. The viewer's eyes are naturally drawn along lines. This can be vertical lines, parallel lines, curved lines, diagonal lines, and even strong horizontal lines. A leading line helps the viewer's eye move from one part of the image to another.

Lines and perspectives

Perspective in photography is defined as the sense of depth or spatial relationship between objects in a photo, along with their dimensions with respect to what viewer of the image sees. By changing perspective, subjects can appear much smaller or larger than normal, lines can converge differently, and much more.

Depth of field

Depth of field, is when a photographer takes a shot, the background has been blurred, but the central image is more focused. It's giving the viewer a better understanding about the image. The artist wants them to focus more on the image, instead of avoiding it by looking at the background.

Macro

Macro photography is extreme close ups. Usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, raindrops etc, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size. What's more effective about Macro photography (explaining on a deeper level), can show the audience what life is like for small organisms. How they are surviving in a large environment around them.