The three rules of light in photography:
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Reflectors are used to get more direct light on the subject for photography. Diffusers are used to diffuse light which gives more of a soft effect. Reflectors and diffusers vary in size and color. Different sized are used for how much light you want, how big of a section what you're capturing is. For reflectors there is white, gold, and silver. White reflectors give a even neutral light. Gold reflector give off a warm light, which is good for sunsets. A silver reflector increases the highlights which is perfect for black and white photos. For diffusers, there are black and transparent ones. Black ones are used to block some lights, and transparent diffusers are used to just diffuse the lights so it's not too harsh.
Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist who took black and white pictures of the environment and landscapes. A common theme that I noticed while looking a his photographs was that all his images had a lot of texture from nature. For example: close up of acorns, or of waves. Those are two completely different texture. He also uses a lot of leading lines and diagonal lines in his landscape pictures. The rule of thirds is also consistent in his work. From studying his photographs, I got really inspired to take a hike and capture everything, using lots of different textures combined, just like Adam did.
A photograph has the rules of composition applied to it, while a picture doesn't necessarily need it. Both a picture and a photograph are capturing a moment, but a photograph has more thought put into it. A picture is what you take at a birthday party with the whole family around the birthday cake, it's quick and easy, you don't need to worry about rules while taking a picture. I feel like I've been taking photographs, even though I did not know about rules before, I don't just take a picture for memory, I actually try to make the viewer feel something with my photograph.
The ten rules of composition are
The rules of composition improve a photograph by allowing you to really speak through you photograph with these tricks, and it will also just simply make is look more put together. I will most likely use rule 2 and rule 10, I want to use the trick of zooming in, kind of to confuse the audience as to what they are looking at, and I will be using rule 10 because I will purposefully be breaking rules. This photo is using 5 of the rules, and it is an incredible photo. The five rules it i using are:
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AuthorCrystal Centeno-Padilla. Senior at Denver South High School. Archives
May 2018
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