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Visual elements of photography include light quality, texture, focus, angle of view, framing/composition, and color. These elements allow photographers to purposefully direct the viewer's eye and set mood. Questions are provided to help analyze each element, such as determining the light source, what is in or out of focus, and how angle of view and color create emotional impact.
Visual elements of photography include light quality, texture, focus, angle of view, framing/composition, and color. These elements allow photographers to purposefully direct the viewer's eye and set mood. Questions are provided to help analyze each element, such as determining the light source, what is in or out of focus, and how angle of view and color create emotional impact.
Visual elements of photography include light quality, texture, focus, angle of view, framing/composition, and color. These elements allow photographers to purposefully direct the viewer's eye and set mood. Questions are provided to help analyze each element, such as determining the light source, what is in or out of focus, and how angle of view and color create emotional impact.
Light quality describes the Determine the source of light
source, amount, and direction of (sun, lamp, flash?). What is lighting in a photograph. Light it? can come from natural sources, like the sun. It can be altered or From which direction does created by humans, by using the light come? Does the such things as flash bulbs or light come from above the lamps. It can also be diffused by subject? Below it? From the clouds or by humans putting a side? veil of cloth over a lamp. The What kind of light do you direction of light is also think this is? Is the light important when looking at harsh with strong shadows, photographs: it can come from or is it diffused with soft, light above, behind, or from one side. shadows? Bright, dim, cloudy, directional, diffused, and flash are some terms used to describe lighting.
Texture Questions to Consider
Texture is how the surface of What objects in the
an object appears to feel or photograph show textures? actually feels to the touch. Describe those textures. Texture can be described as rough, smooth, soft, etc. Is the texture of objects Texture is shown in something you noticed right photographs by the way the away, or do you notice it light falls on an object and after looking for a while? through value changes. The Why? paper on which the photograph is made also determines texture. Focus Questions to Consider
Focus is the sharpness or What is in sharp focus? Has
clarity of subjects in the the photographer kept photographic image. Soft focus everything in sharp focus? is created when a Has the photographer kept photographer manipulates the only a few things in focus? camera to achieve blurry, Explain. gentle edges. Photographers use the aperture (lens Has the artist made this opening) and limitations of the image in soft focus? What lens to create sharp detail, soft mood or feeling has the edges, or both; this is called photographer created by selective focus. choosing soft focus or sharp focus?
Angle of View Questions to Consider
Angle of view is the position What is the angle of view for from where the photographer this image? took the picture. A Is the camera angle in the photographer can point the photograph at eye level, lower camera from below, above, or than eye level (a bugs eye straight at an object. In other view), or above eye level (a artistic media, this is often birds eye view)? Is the viewer called point of view. When looking straight on or from one looking for subjects, especially side or another? in nature, a photographer often How does the artists angle of shifts the angle of view to view make you feel about the make interesting images. subject? Angle of view can also express emotion or mood. It can give the viewer a sense of being small if looking up, or a sense of being big if looking down. Framing/Composition Questions to Consider Framing is how a What do you think the photographer carefully photographer chose to presents a subject. Unlike include or exclude from this painters, who usually begin scene in order to draw your with a blank canvas, attention to the center of photographers begin with interest? everything in front of them. In what ways did the artist Once a subject is found, a use framing in this image? photographer decides what to What in the photograph include in the picture frame. helps frame the center of The photographer then interest? composes the image to draw a viewers attention to the subject in a way that best expresses the artists idea of it.
Color Questions to Consider
Artists use color to achieve Are color photographs many effects. Color gives more real looking than viewers a sense of mood, black-and-white place, and time of year. Color photographs? Why or why can also move your eye not? around a composition and What can a photographer create a sense of space on a achieve with color that she flat surface. Some artists or he cannot with black- achieve very saturated (strong, and-white pictures? intense) color in their images, How would this scene be while others intentionally use different if it were in black subdued or muted colors in and white or in color? their subject matter. How do you think the artist has captured either saturated or muted color?