Rule Of Third

In the rule of thirds, photos are divided into thirds with two imaginary lines vertically and two lines horizontally makes three columns, three rows and nine sections in the images. Important compositional elements and leading lines are placed on or near the imaginary lines and where the lines intersect.

When taking a photograph with the rule of thirds in mind, it's always best to compose the photograph in the camera. This is so that you can avoid cropping later to retain as much of the image as possible and avoid reducing the quality of your photographs.

Colour Wheel

Subtractive Colour systems start with light, presumably white light. Coloured inks, paints, or filters between the viewer and the light source or reflective surface subtract wavelengths from the light giving it colour. If the incident light is other than white, our visa mechanisms are able to compensate well, but not perfectly often giving a flawed impression of the "true colour of the surface.

Additive Colour is colour created by mixing light of two or more different colours. Red, Green, and Blue are the additive Primary Colours normally used in additive colour system. Additive colour is in contrast to subtractive colour, in which colours are created by subtracting parts of the spectrum of light present in ordinary white light, by means of coloured pigments or dyes, such as those in paints, inks and the three dye layers in typical colour photographs on films.

Red is the colour of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire and love.

Yellow is the colour of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect and energy.

Green is the colour of nature. It symbolises growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.

Blue is the colour of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolises trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth and heaven.

Magenta combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Magenta is associated with royalty. It symbolises power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. Magenta is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.

White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity and virginity. It is considered to be the colour of perfection.

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Depth Field

 These images show the main focus. It has an image which the camera is mostly focused on and a little blur in the background. This is called a shallow or a small depth field where only a small part of the image is sharp and in focus. Depth of Field is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

The Use of Negative Space

The negative space in this picture is a brick wall. Most of  the image has been blurred a little bit other than the jacket, as the jacket is the main focal point. It has been dimmed a little around the edge to give it a little darkness to make the jacket stick out. The words around the image gives the audience more of an idea what the whole image is for. Negative space is the empty space around the subject or focus of the photograph. If the edges of the photo frame the contents within, and the subject is the focal point, it's possible that just about every photo can have negative space.

Leading Lines and Focal Points definition

     

Definitions

Leading Lines: A leading line creates a path for the eye to follow. It usually starts at the bottom of the frame and guilds the eye upwards and inwards.

Focal Points: A focal point is the part of an image that draws the eye of a viewer to the most important  part of the image or the area that you want to highlight.

My images start from the top, and then makes the viewers eye go to the bottom of the image. The eye is automatically drawn to the doors or the sky then taken down. 

Focal Point and Leading Lines Images

Between these two images (above and left) only one of them is the correct leading lines. The image above is incorrect as there are many different lines, whereas the image on the left has many leading lines, it directs you to the image. This is the best as it helps the viewer see it better and it guilds the eyes to the main focal point, which in this picture is the door.