Photography Blog 4 - Photography terms

Framing/Composition - Framing/Composition photography is a type of photography that creates a frame within a frame, and highlights the subject. Examples of framing/composition photography involves doorways, fences, and tunnels. Framing photography also shows the viewer exactly where to look on the photograph.

Filling the frame - This type of photography zooms in on the subject of the photograph and covers all the edges.

Rules of thirds - This type of photography causes the image to be divided into thirds, this can be either vertically or horizontally. The subject of the photo is usually placed at the intersection of the lines

Line of perspective - Perspective in photography is defined as the sense of depth or spatial relationship between objects in a photo, along with their dimensions with respect to what viewer of the image sees. By changing perspective, subjects can appear much smaller or larger than normal.

Depth of field - This type of photography zooms in directly into the subject and blurs out the surroundings. Depth of field requires a strong foundation in the basics of a camera lens, along with the vocabulary used to describe them, such as f-stop, focal length, focus range, and field of view.

Macro photography - Macro photography is another type of zoom up photography where the camera takes an extreme close up to very small objects, such as tiny insects, This type of photography causes the size of the subject in the picture to look bigger than what it actually is.