Photography and Photo Composition Rules

Today we learned about many things. The first thing we talked about was Photo Compostion Rules. Most photo follow these rules, and following these rules will make your photo's more interesting, that doesn't mean you should use these rules in every picture you take because your picture wont be interesting but these are just guildlines to help you take better picture. Before taking the pictrue the main thing you need to look at is what is the main subject, and decide how to do it. There are many rules but here are the main rules:

The Rule Of Thirds: It is the most commonly use photo technique. You divide the photo into 3 sections horizontally and 3 sections vertically. Where the vertical and horizontal lines intersect that gives you the general idea of where the

Simplicity: To try to focus on the object by making things around it more simple so it doesn't draw away attention from the main object.

-Focus: Sometimes when you just focus on one item the back will be blured and it focuses on the object.

Fraiming: By using the natural suroundings to focus or suround the object, giving the subject more meaning.

Leading Lines: Used to lead ones eyes deeper into the picture main subject.

Leaving space: Leaving space could give you a feeling that the main object is going into the picture if its on the bottom right, by leaving space on the left and the top, it will give you the feeling of it going into the picture.

We also learned photoshop today. Most of the moduals are the same like file and edit. Like DreamWeaver Mx there are something like docs ont top right, but they are called wells, and instead or ports which hold quick infromation, and it is called a pellet. Another important lesson was the average picture size. The average picture size is 4 by 6 inches. The most important infromation we learned was about revolution. DPI means Data Per Inch, and DPI is basically revolution of something. The revolution means the the amount of data in one inch and the data inside and inch is measured in Pixles. 1 pixle is 1 piece of infromation. On computers the DPI is is 72, and when you print the DPI is around 300 for the same picture. The more pieces of informaition to represent the same picture the clearer it will be, and since the monitors dont show each pixle really well so 72 is fine. Changing from 300 to 72 is easyer because you are taking infromation out, but when you want to change 72 to 300 it is harder because you do not know what the infromation would you add, with photoshop it just adds infromation mathamatically so it wont be clearer because the infromation may be wrong.

The Wiki + Blog work period

Today we are supposed to catch up on our blogs and the wiki. I have noticed that many of the newer topics were not there so that means that not many people actually went on the blog to post becuase I could think of many topics to write on the Wiki with, like the newer projects we got the Portfolio, and the 10 things about Micorsoft Word. There are also very few topics on Microsoft Word, and I use microsoft word 07 so it is really hard to find the same modual on Microsoft Word 03. I think I did enought work on my blog but I am not sure about the wiki. The fourums are not really active as before the chrismas break, but it has started to become more active. We were also infromed of a Microsoft word test. We all expected to have it sooner or later, and now we know the date we will have it. The test is Wednesday and finding all the moduals will be hard.