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Essential Photography Composition Techniques

This document contains questions about composition techniques in photography based on a reading called "Composition 101 (Photography)". The questions cover basic composition techniques like rule of thirds, leading lines, patterns, and balance. They also ask about more advanced techniques like point of interest, backlighting, and cropping photos. The questions are meant to test the reader's understanding of key composition principles in photography.

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Essential Photography Composition Techniques

This document contains questions about composition techniques in photography based on a reading called "Composition 101 (Photography)". The questions cover basic composition techniques like rule of thirds, leading lines, patterns, and balance. They also ask about more advanced techniques like point of interest, backlighting, and cropping photos. The questions are meant to test the reader's understanding of key composition principles in photography.

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Name: _______________________________ Hour: ___________

Photography Composition

After reading the handout titled Composition 101 (Photography), answer the following questions. Write
your answers on this page.

A) What do all great pictures have in common?



B) List the first (basic) eight composition techniques in bold type:
1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

7)

8)

C) Are there right or wrong answers to photographic composition?


D) Which composition technique warns you not to focus so much on the subject of the photo that you
forget to look for distracting elements in the background?



E) Why would a photographer avoid placing the subject in the center of the frame?



F) Every photo has a _________________________ and a __________________________.


G) Which composition technique provides a new way of looking at things and makes for a more dramatic
picture?


H) Give 2 examples of patterns in photographic composition?



I) Which photographic technique encourages you to pay attention to detail?



J) Why would you crop a photo?



K) Which photographic technique divides the photo into thirds?



L) What is formal balance?



M) What is asymmetrical balance?



N) Which photographic technique draws the viewers eye to a point of interest by blurring the
background?



O) Why is backlighting undesirable?



P) What part of the photograph does a high horizon emphasize?



Q) What is the purpose of leading lines?





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