Composition for Noobs

Flow

LEADING LINES & NEGATIVE SPACE matters to make flows

• Let the leading lines form a loop

• Balance the negative space and foreground

Rules

• Fibonacci spiral
• rule of third
• lines of action
• gaps instead of overlapping

Color & Focus

• avoid big divide in color for backgrounds
• use opposite colors to out stand the subject
• separate some aspects of the image
  • more brighter and saturated to draw eyes
  • otherwise to make it desaturated and darker if don’t want to look at it

Story

make it interesting what‘s going on

• stand VS moving towards VS moving backwards
  
• tell story from different length and emphasize subjects

Example

• color
  • complementary color groups
• story
  • stand on the roof at sunset looking toward the sea, with many ships on the sea
  • maybe that guy wants to be a sailor, to start his adventure
• rule
  • Fibonacci spiral
  • action line