Composition for Noobs

Flow

LEADING LINES & NEGATIVE SPACE matters to make flows

  • Let the leading lines form a loopimage-20241122144820417

  • Balance the negative space and foreground

Rules

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

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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

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Story

make it interesting what‘s going on

  • stand VS moving towards VS moving backwards
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  • tell story from different length and emphasize subjectsimage-20241122152709812

Example

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  • 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