Foundations of Photographic Art: the main building blocks that permit an ordinary picture to become artistic. Mastery of each foundation will help to create photography which is aesthetically beautiful.

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Lines—leading lines and using triangles, squares, circles which are made up of lines

 

Texture—It is that quality that makes something visual seem like it could be experienced through senses other than sight: touch, or taste, or sound, or smell

 

Rhythm—the repetition or alternating of elements, often with defined intervals that creates a sense of movement, and can establish a flow or harmony

 

Color—hue (tint) and saturation (amount) and luminosity (brightness)

 

Tone—the contrast between light and dark, the luminosity of the subject...the “pop” of an image, this can also be used to create a “mood” in an image

 

Space—effective use of positive vs negative space

Balance—the way all the elements are arranged in an image, rule of odds, centered, off-center (rule of thirds), circular

 

Depth of Field—amount of the picture which is in sharp focus

 

Perspective—way an image creates a sensation of volume, space, depth, distance, and scale

 

Point of View—the point of view for your photo: up close, far away, from above, ground level, eye level, mirror/reflection, distorted

 

Framing—what to include and what not to include in an image to help bring focus to the subject so that it stands out more