Posts Tagged ‘composition’
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Avoid Mergers, aka things that make your photos look odd.
Case in point this photo. While this is a a photoshpped not your everyday photo it still have a photo merger. The merger here is the pole coming out of the man’s head. It just makes the picture odd. Many times people won’t realize that their a branch sticking out of someone’s head and it makes it look they it is growing. These are bad things. Mergers can also happen colorwise with your artwork or even photography. Colors that are so close in pigment that they merge together to the eye you want contrast.
Written by: Kim Woods
Tags: composition, design, mergers, photography, What is
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Horizontal vs. Vertical
When you begin to layout your composition the design of horizontal of vertical is a big decesion. For photography, it’s not a big deal typically just take the photo two ways. I actually suggest doing this especially with photography, I feel it will help you learn about compositions in general and make you see why compositions work. Things that are taller in nature are going to typically be better in vertical compositions, but the horizontal version is going to greater for a more laidout version. Landscapes you are going to always want to do in horizontal layout because you are showing the land. It really depends on the photo or the imagery you are representing. I have completely done something say vertical for a painting class that was abstract and then flipped it and liked it that way better and decided to turn it a different way. That is the beauty of abstract. Vertical is also better for people, especially one person. You don’t need all that extra space to get the whole shot of the person, unless of course your going for the scenery.
Again it all depends on you. Study it and as I suggest try taking pictures in both forms and then decide for yourself.
Written by: Kim Woods
Tags: composition, design, horizontal, is, vertical, what, why
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Even though design has rules, sometimes you have to break them
Rules are meant to be broken. You can’t not have a rule and not break it it’s like that unwritten law. Put a rule in place and at some point it will be broken and may turn out horribly or in some cases beautifully. Certain rules for certain things can be broken and you get an amazing affect, but the key is to not do this all the time. Broken rules are okay but not in large amounts. You only want to break one rule in the composition typically, that or every single rule because otherwise it just looks like bad design. You either want it to be an obvious breaking of the rules or just one that is that thing that is perfect.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: composition, design, imagery, okay, perfect, rules, sometimes, What is
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Use framing to help imagery
When using framing you are setting up the image to put the focal point as the main focus. That is why framing works so well. It gives the viewers a focal point to focus on and sets the scene for the image. They can either be natural framing or other kinds of framing. The frame below is one of the more popular ways to frame is through tunnels. Tunnels work as framing because they inevitably have a light at the end which lets you see the outer area and front or foreground is darker but still can be seen. Framing can go either way, the foreground can either be in focus, really dark, out of focus, or almost non existent.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: composition, design, framing, imagery, What is
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Lighting plays a part in the overall transformation
Depending on the mood you are trying to create lighting will make a big difference. If you want something dark and edgy you will need something with high contrast and colors that play to that theme using dark shades of whatever color you choose. If you are going for a lighter or more suttle look you will want to use pastels with lighting that is overall more transparent or not a key part of the image just enough that you have the image showing through.
Lighting can also give direction. Your composition can change from dark to light making the composition move or grow as the viewer glances, some parts can be high light while others low light for contrast. Lighting is all about what you want the viewer to see. For me since I am typically not a painter, my lighting I like to be sunny and preferably not cloudy with long shadows for imagery.
This composition has varying lighting affects, but a the most prominent is the directional lighting from the left to the right of the picture.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: composition, dark, directional, idea, image, lighting, nuetral
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
What makes a good composition?
There are a lot of things that go into composition. Some of which we have explained but I will go more into depth here in some future blogs. Composition is what makes up the piece the whole idea behind the idea and what makes it look great. The word composition can be associated with many kinds of art. It can be used for painting, photography, music, videos, sculpture, and fabric. The composition is the piece as a whole. A composition can also be part of a series. For instance, photographers will sometimes do studies which means that take lots of pictures of either the same exact object from different angles, lighting aspects or it could mean that take a bunch of pictures of the same type of object. I once did a photographic study of park benches.
The composition is the most important part of the design or the piece and should be thought about before you start anything that is too complicated especially like a sculpture or painting so that halfway through you don’t think where I am going with this again. The idea should be thought through.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: composition, design, how to, painting, photography, sculpture, series, What is, why
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Since we’ve been talking about compositions and layouts, I hope you realize the sheer complexity that comes with each layout and the many decisions that must be made along the way.
Here are just a number of types of publications that graphic designers would deal with along the way according to our job description:
Tags: composition, Graphic Design, journals, layout, logo design, newspaper, packaging, publications, reports, web design, What is
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Named for Piet Mondrian, the mondrian grid layout is based on his approach to paintings. If you are not an artist yourself you may have seen his works, and just not known whose they were. They are grid based painting of white, with usually black lines. see below for an example. Piet’s work not only inspired layouts for graphic designers, but many other things as you can see below. A lot of today’s more simplistic yet beautiful artists work off of his theories and ideas. It is the simplistic view of the overall grid design that makes his work so versatile.
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Radial design, is based on the premise of symmetrical design. Like symmeterical design radial design has balanced proportions, sizes and shapes. The only difference is that the design is based on a circle. This easily makes sense I’m sure. Radial design is used in less circumstances than your typical composition, though may be just one small part of a composition compared to asymmetrical and symmetrical which have to encompass the whole competition.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Asymmetrical is the opposite of symmetrical design. So that means that asymmetrical design is not balanced, proportioned and their may be more elements of one things than another. Basically when you look at something and the left and right sides are not equal in weight or composition, you have asymmetrical design.
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