Photography Composition and Image manipulation

Composition:

Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.

Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.

In Photoshop we have learnt how to manipulate images to create new posters. In the lesson we focused mainly on the cloning tool-one of my personal favourites which allows you to copy part of the image and recreate it in another place. We were all given the poster for cloverfield as our base and we had to copy in a charactor to the foreground, erase the text at the bottom of the poster and create a reflection of our new charactor in the water.
    I admit that I found it a bit hard at first but luckily I do photography aswell so photoshop wasn't completely new to me. However the fact that the reflection was the wrong way round shows the level of skill i'm at at the moment on photoshop.