Notes from Day Course - on Composition

To consider to have in your picture to make it pop:
Lines
- These direct the viewer's eyes (think the long desert road picture)

Shape
- Our eyes are naturally drawn to triangle and diamond shapes

Form
- 3D effects

Color
- Intensity and making the color jump out

Texture
- Touchable illusions like feather, stone, gritty brick, fur

Value
- Shading used to emphasize a 3D effect

Space
- Take advantage of the positive and negative area that is used between the object and the image (think like leaving picture open where direction of viewer is looking towards)

Other things to keep in mind when composing:- Rules of thirds and power points
- Framing