Intro to stills camera

Because photography and all images have their own meaning and atmosphere we must to know and understand the language of pictures (eg. shapes, shadows and different shades from light to dark, textures, patterns, lines, colors) and know how to use it to deliver the exact information to viewer that we want. Just as we planning to write a speech we should use the basic laws to make our photographs and still frames understandable.
Composition means arrangement: so we should put together of parts to make a unified whole, make a composition as an intuitive act.
There are several rules and principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact with them and combine in four borders of a photograph.
Once we have used these ideas and even sharpened our vision, we will have an opportunity to make a photo more exciting and effective that ever before.


One of basic rules is a Rule of Thirds.

This rule is useful not only photographers but amongst artists too.
It works like we are drawing imaginary lines dividing an image into three both vertically and horizontally.
You should place the most important object(s) where these lines intersect.
Using this rule helps to create a balanced picture with important objects with more clear vision because they are exactly on the lines and support objects on all free space where no lines are so they can look blur and this will underline their second role.
The last thing about Rule of Thirds is the tome being.
You may want to brake this rule as soon as possible and it’s okay because the main purpose of this rule is just to teach young people to see objects in these frames to recognise main and support objects and how to place them. After we learnt and used it, we can even break it to make our frame more unusual and sometimes surreal to create more exciting picture which will make the viewer to think why this picture is not as usual as others.