Derek!

  In order for me to tell you how I think you take good photographs, I need to separate my information in three categories. These three categories are “Colour, Shape, and Line”, “Subjects and Meanings”, and “Editing”. Here they are.

Colour, Shape, and Line

Three factors in taking a good photograph are colour, shape, and line. You might remember this on my other post “How is Mood Created in a Visual Text?” The question is, though, is what are good colours, shapes, and lines. In my opinion, it depends on what the subject or meaning of your photograph is.

Subjects and Meanings

A photograph can have many subjects and meanings. What you have to make sure,  though, is that your colours, shapes, and lines have to match what you are trying to say.

For example, if you took a picture like the one at the top, wanting to show happiness, people wouldn’t get it. Most people would think it would be sadness or depression because the colours, black and white, show sadness or depression. Also, the shape and line in the facial expression show that the person in the picure is sad.

The one at the bottom, however, shows happiness. The colours are way brighter, and the shape and line in the facial expression show that the baby is happy.

A thing that is amazing about photographs, is that editing your photograph can help you show your subject or meaning.

Editing
Editing is an imortant part of photography. Unfourtunatly, you can only edit if you have a digital camera and a computer with the programing. If you do have these things, your in luck! There are many ways you can edit a photograph like morphing and changing colours ,but, there are things you might want to consider when you are editing:

• Play around- This allows you learn how to use different effects and it shows you what you are capable of
• Don’t over use effects- If you over use effects, odds are  your photograph won’t look so good

If you consider these things, chances are, you will make a wonderful photograph.

This concludes how I think you take good photographs…

This entry was posted on September 26, 2006 at 4:47 pm and is filed under Grade Eight, School Stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.