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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Perspective

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Perspective enables us to represent the 3-D world within the two-dimensional visual design of a photograph. You create perspective through our representation of depth or distance on a flat surface. The third dimension is created through our arrangement of lines, shapes and textures within our visual design.

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Texture

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Texture is the visual building block that photographers are most likely to neglect in creating their compositions. Texture in the surface of your subject could be the threads in a woven material, movement or water or the roughness in the bark of a tree. On a larger scale it could patterns created over a landscape such as red poppies in a field of wheat.

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Shapes

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Shapes as the building block in visual design for photography. This continues from my original posting on the book Photographing the world around you.
As with lines, shapes are only visible or created though contrasts of tone and colour.

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Lines

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography.  Lines Continuing from my original posting on the book Photographing the world around you.

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Visual Design Photography

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While we have been in Germany I’ve been reading “Photographing the world around you” by Freeman Patterson about visual design in film and photography.

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