PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES

First Part

Like the painters, classical or modern, who knew precisely these techniques, photographers are in the duty to handle them. But eye!, in my case I like to call them techniques, in many other cases or photographers you will see what they say Laws or Rules of Composition, which suggests that they are unbreakable or obligatory to comply with. I believe that it is mandatory to know and test them, so that they become useful tools for the construction of our discourse as photographers and allow us to make images that speak. But surely the case will be presented, in which many times we want to not fulfill them, as in fact already many consecrated photographers do it. But always with responsibility and with conscience.

Undoubtedly one of the best ways to learn the Techniques of Composition is to study the masters of classical and modern painting, all possible genres and understand how they composed each of their works. After all, photographers are painters, only our ink is light.

In the next post, I will be sharing several of these techniques, with details and examples, such as:

Regla de Los Tercios
Ley of the Horizon
La Ley de la Mirada
Contrast
Simplicity
Rhythm
Symmetry
White and Black
Color
Use of the Lines
and others...

We read soon and we continue sharing this exciting world of photography.

(All the photographs of this post are of my authorship, taken in the Study of the Teacher Armando Villalón, painter Larense, Venezuela)

Alejandro Coutinho