11 Best Photo Composition Rules for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Step up your photo game with 11 of the most important photography composition rules every beginner photographer should know!
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I explain the rules, show examples, and then give advice on how you can use these rules immediately! Featuring juxtaposition, negative space, perspective, contrast lghting, leading lines and diagonals, filling the frame, frame with a frame, rule of thirds and balance. Get ready to fill your brain!
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Summary attempt :
1. perspective & vantage point: shooting from high or from ground etc
2. negative space: isolate your subject. silhouette outlining shapes
3. filling the frame: (opposite of neg space) zoom in to guide focus
4. Symmetry: water and puddles, architecture
5. leading lines and diagonals: like S curve that guide the eye, combined with perspective
6. Framing: emphasis on subject through existing frames, frame within frame , framing subjects withing elements
7. juxtaposition: pairing opposing or similar elements
8. rule of thirds: placing subjects in middle sides also related to the rule of space: leave space according subjects orientation
9. rule of corners and triangles: lines going along corners (cropping helps)
10.Balance: encompassing all rules and also balance of elements within the shot.
11. contrast lighting: subject emerging from shadows, emphasis on subject, balance of contrast.
You’re always so informative, I love it! I’m excited to apply this to my trip coming up.
The way you explain these rules are so much easier to understand than how most youtubers present them. Thank you Josh for keeping it simple and honest! :)
This is the best composition video I’ve seen hands down. Thank you!
hands down, for sure. Put those hands down. I have never been more distracted by hand gestures anywhere ever.
These videos are outstanding. Every other composition video I've seen tells you to look for leading lines, but you actually explained where in the frame to place them, and where the should lead to. Keep it up man.
So good! To summarize:
11 best photo composition rules:
1. perspective and vantage point - Get super low or super high
2. Negative space - give your subject room to breathe - zoom out Isolating your subject for dramatic affect Rather than filling your frame with your subject, Best way is to make the negative space very plain or photograph silhouettes so that textures become shapes
3. Fill the frame esp if background is super busy- zoom in and cut all that out
4. Symmetry- its balanced, clean and easy on the eyes, use of water is good, so is architecture
5. Leading lines and diagonals that lead the eye through the photo, Easily digestible leading you to the subject of the photo, Adds structure to a photo. Examples: s-curve, diagonals from corners, telephone poles street wires buildings trees trails etc., action sequence photos, lines leading straight to a subject
6. Framing: Great way to provide emphasis to your subject used doors branches architecture, You can purposefully create a frame within a frame based on the perspective you choose to take to shoot
7. Juxtaposition: peering multiple elements together in a photo that either work together or contrast against one another
8. Rule of thirds: there are vertical and horizontal third in your photo and it can be more aesthetically pleasing to have your subject line up with one of those thirds, further a rule within this rule is the rule of space which says if you have a subject looking or moving in a certain direction than the larger 2/3 of the photo should be in that same direction
9. The rule of corners and triangles, Triangles are very pleasing in photos and when you have leading lines lining up with 1-4 corners of the photo it’s even more pleasing. If you have leading lines come in close to your corners adjust yourself so that the lines lineup specifically with those corners, Move your camera or rotate your camera to lock in the corners or do it and post by changing the perspective. If you use this rule you will automatically fulfill the golden triangle rule. Don’t overthink it.
10. Balance
11. Contrast lighting looking for areas of shading or light bath and placing your subject in the light bath or half in the shaded area and half in the lighted area
12. Bonus rule: Rules are dumb. Learn the rules so you can break them!
This video was SUPER helpful! So glad to have found it. Really love your whole perspective on photography and the way you present it in these videos. Thanks and pls keep putting out more stuff.
I'm loving the tutorials, I'm leading on starting to start photographing, and these are really giving me the courage to go out and buy my first setup!
Just starting out like a week ago and still learning. Thanks for this video. I knew nothing about composition. Until now.
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Try a rule you learned from this video and post on your Instagram, using #joshkatzphotos and tagging me, @joshkatz. Include which rule/rules you were trying. Winner receives a framed print of one of my photos! Will pick a random entry in 2 weeks!
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Actually was thinking these tips could help on my next trip, but as I edit my recent one I’m noticing many of your guidelines. I’m having fun making them work. Hopefully I can submit one for this.
Josh Katz, big fan, keep it up. Very first picture shown was your buddy on a mountainside. It said 5D Mark IV, 24-105 f2. How is that possible? 24-105 is a constant f4. Anyways, great video.
Hey Josh, rookie here! Thank you for this video :) You explain it way easier than my brother who's teaching me is :P
great tutorial josh...its really helpful for photography...keep doing this types of tutorials...
This video definitely helped me!! Wow, thank you!!
Thanks for this video. That's a good summary of all I wanted to know about composition rules
Oh my god this is so amazingggggg ! Thank you so much I learnt so much 😭 I feel like I would have wasted like thousands of pics of I hadn't watched this
Great vid josh helped me a lot, I think u should do more of the “reviewing your photos”
I am just starting out in photography and this was wonderfully explained. Thank you for doing this!
This is such a helpful video!!! Thank you so much!!!
Awesome tips ! Love it I can’t wait to take photos now
Great work with details of explanation.
Great job, Josh. Thank you.
You're the best josh. Thank man- really helped.
Awesome tips!!! Going to go practice tomorrow!
Loved this! This really gave me a whole different outlook and approach for photography.
So helpful! Thanks!
Thank you for such a great explanation.
Awesome video! Learned a lot. Thank you!
Great suggestions. Thanks, Josh!
Cool man! I just started my photography and this video is Amazing! I will definitely do all the cool stuff you said during my photo walks also I added this to my Photography Lesson List! =) more videos I hope and more tutorials!
Fantastic video!!!!
GREAT STUFF! Easy to understand and follow your directions, young man! :)
I came to learn about photography and left with a beautiful new picture of John Hill, thank you
Yess! This is exactly what we are doing in photography
It's very helpful. Thank you from Bangkok!
very helpful.. instant subscribed!
Fantastic overview, Josh.
Nice video.its informative for beginners
This was really helpful and interesting, thank you (:
This was really helpful, goo things to think about for a beginner
Dude this was way more helpful than I expected. Haha loved it bro amazing job 👏🏽 keep slayin’ man
love the content my dude
Great video! Thanks for sharing. Could you Dina video on lens and different lights please??
Thanks for the tips
Thanks! This was super helpful 😁
Excellent explanations...
amazing stuff 🎯
Ok. I was ready to dis you but then you got me at perspective. Really good video. I already shoot this way. Thanks. Respect. Show me how to shoot the skateboarder!
Excellent!
What a great photographer you are! And nothing selfish! New follower here! : )
Great video and super important topic! Marina from Frameright
Great video!
Excellent !!
Really helpful 👌
very helpfull to me brother..Thanq
Best video I see ever bro, thank you bro👌👌💕💕
"Get your subject high" he said
Don't forget to be as high as possible too!
Thanks!
Nice video:) And beautiful pictures
Thanks for these great practical tips! The background of this very video leaves something to be desired though
Great video, you should make a video about Lightroom, thanks!
Got my first “big kid” camera today. This was super helpful and inspiring.
What camera?
A good set of solid rules ; great work ! Thx. I don't understand the thumbs down ; never mind !!
With regards balance I like to place odd numbers of people in the picture ; 1, 3, 5, 7 ; rather than even numbers of people
(could be people or whatever subject elements you are including)
Also with regards rule n.9 with diagonals I usually try not to make them meet exactly at the corner
Rule 13 ; study art, or even do some painting and your photography composition will improve as a result !!
first comment boyyyyyyy ,dope video dude when are you doing a live again
I teach high school and show this to my Photo classes every year :)
That's amazing to hear!
It did help
which 24-104 lens did you use to get F2? in the first image you posted?
Here for my school assignment! Hii :D
What do you think about deathlens?
When will you do another review?how can I send photos?
6:27
Me: Painter
Intellectual: Painting Man
Painting person?
Painting people?
Really Good! There's a juxtaposition between being a young Fella and knowing a lot.
So nice to watch an informational video without 10 minutes of irrelevant personal information or cheesy attempts at humor
Josh how do you take like good zoomed in picture of yeezy fits or shoes period. Like the zoomed in with blurred background pic?... reply would be greatly appreciated bro!
That's bokeh. Low aperture and 30+mm lens.
just by the cheapest 50mm (the 50mm f1.8) and shoot at 1.8
Nice
12:41
Wow good photo
Hey Josh, do you think you might pursue photography/videography as your profession after college? Or are you planning a business-oriented career, if you're still studying business in college.
Gonna keep doing internet business stuff once I graduate. Definitely going the self employed route. Got a few new projects cooking atm, but RUclips will definitely keep happening.
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I liked the video the second he said "depending on how philosophical you wanna get," lol
very cool, you seem like a nice guy :)
I got my subject high and now he does not want to take pictures, but wants nachos and chill.
Gud
24 - 105 f2? is that a custom lens?
Do you ever use tripods? or do you sorta just shoot the photo.
1:48 why not slow the shutter speed a bit to keep the iso at 100 ?
An amateur photographer here, please enlighten me 😊
Maybe cause the dog is moving
@@rustybule6393 it makes a lot of sense actually, I didn't think about that. Thank you
I don't get the corners thing but otherwise thx
eh dude i love your photos composition hmmmmmmwa
skating?
still skate?
Bro . . .
24 - 105 lens doesn't come F2 Aperture, its start F4 Aperture and you show the pic Aperture value 24-105 mm lense is F2 .
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You should do a skate vid on all the spot in va that you skated
These are great tips man, too bad the channel seems to be a bit dusty
Well this channel died haven’t been here for a year what happened
What did it used to be like, I'm new here
used to be good
I hate fake counters like the one on your website claiming there is only 29 minutes left. No need to fool customers. If you do that, what else is fake?
I like you stuff. could you talk a little slower?
seriously you can't capture skate photography that good when you don't skate yourself
Actually I don't like the tutorial
Wtf happened to this Chanel
boring
Great vid josh helped me a lot, I think u should do more of the “reviewing your photos”