Design+Principles

Design Principles In Photography

1.title and your name(s). 2. heading of the first design principle and an explanation of what it does and why it works. 3. a photo that clearly demonstrates the design principle at work. 4. the answers to the following questions: a. How the picture makes you feel b. The composition-how is the picture balanced c. The lighting- what kind and where it is coming from d. Use of texture e. The focus of the photo f. The background g. What is the photo about?

__**Chera Kim**__

Depth: This photo represents the design principle of 'depth'. It leads our vision deeper into the photo, allows us to visually travel in further into it. This picture has a sense of depression and destroyed underground level, which gives me a scary and dangered feeling about this picture. It is balanced with many pillars and the colour and contrast makes this picture seem more balanced. The lighting effect comes from the left side of the photo, which give us a sense of opened wall on the left, exposed to sunlight. The whole picture has texture of roughness and harshness due to the dusty and destroyed environment. The focus of this picture is the dark, deep middle point where the depth leads to. The background is the rough pillar and ceiling, dustiness and spare bricks and woods make up an extra info on the background. This photo is about a destroyed underground level where it hasn't been care by men for a while.

Diagonals: This photo contains many diagonal lines that leads our vision further into a single point. It has a depressing feeling into it, due to the black and white effect with a guy pulling a cart as a main subject. Diagonal lines on both sides that gives us an illusion of all the lines meeting at one point, further in the picture. The light effect that was used in this picture, came from the middle point where the diagonals are leading to. The texture of this photo has a sense of dullness on the buildings and the whole thing feels like it was after a rainy, foggy day. Due to the diagonal lines, the focus of this photo looks like it's the middle point where all the lines meet, but the guy with a cart pops out more with contrast. The foggy cloud simplifies the busyness in this photo. This picture's meaning seems to show that the man with a cart has a long way to go.

Triangles : Element of Triangle is used in pictures that contain triangles within objects, and many triangles are created in this photo. This picture makes me feel the beauty of human body language. Right side and left side both has the same shape, and the main objects, in this case the 3 dancers, are balanced right in the middle of the photo, which makes this photo look very balanced. Since this photo was taken of dancers on stage, stage lights only shine upon dancers from up above. Its very bright, which allowed these dancers to stand out. Due to their soft body suit and equal colour balance between the ground and dancers, give out soft texture. The focus of this picture is obviously the dancers, due to the strong lightening on them, balanced, and clear object. The background is a simple, pure black, to allow dancers and colours to stand out more. This photography would be one of photo shoots of stage dances.

Planes and Depth Levels

Colour Space This picture gives out senses of fun, happy, friendly. The colour balance of it balanced the whole picture, with black background and the baby to down a level, and bright, colourful contrast on the glasses which pops out a lot. It seems like they used natural sun light for lightening, coming from the above ,shinning down on to the baby. By softening the wooden fence, whole picture's texture became soft and dull, but the glasses's sharpness gives more dense feeling. The focus of this picture is the glasses, and the people inside of it. The background in this case is the baby and the wooden fence. They both carry a soft texture, even though the baby is focused, baby carries softness. It has a fun meaning into it.

Element Relationship This photograph is fun, meaningful, creative, and well balanced. The fishes meeting at a middle point, which is also on the eye level of the women holding them, shows great balance in the picture. It seems like they used the natural light for the light source from the sun shinning above them. This picture's use of texture effects is mainly effected by the fishes' skin, the sharpness of it. The focus of this picture goes to the women's face mainly because it is in the middle and the eyes of fishes looks like it's the eyes of the women. The background of this picture is a simple field background that's been blurred a little. This photography is kind of like an optical illusion, where it tricks the viewers thinking the eyes of fishes' are the eyes of human's. it it very fun and creative.

Simple and Single Point This is a type of an uncluttered photo, where the whole attention goes to one main object, and the background is simple or blurred. The simpleness and the way the photographer put the object on the side but in the middle makes the whole picture look balanced. The lighting shined down on the whole area of the photograph, which equally brightened the picture. The texture of this picture has only clear object's plastic and fake texture feeling into it. The focus of this picture has to the little toy they used, because it's the only thing that's sharp and clear. The background is a really simple white background of some sort of cloth, which downs a level for a colourful object to stand out. This photography can be used to advertise this toy brand.

Framing This is a wedding photography. The framing of the door wall balances out the picture by making the focus to clearly be the bride. It seems like they used the natural sun light on a great sunny day, since it is so bright and it's shinning down from the above. there is no particular texture used in this picture because there's too many objects with different texture, but the bride's soft and delicate dress stands out. The focus of this picture is the bride with the flower coming inside the framed door walls, because everything else but the bride and door has been blurred down. The background is a simple outdoor, blurred to clearly stand out the bride, and the colour is turned down to sepia, which balances the whole picture This photography is a wedding photography of a Bride.