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:
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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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