Photography Composition Tips
A user-friendly fact-sheet for future reference:
Creative Design Checklist
Title: Photography Composition Tips
Budget: $20,000
Format: Multi-column layout
Purpose: A user-friendly fact-sheet for future reference.
Target Audience: Photography enthusiasts.
Call to Action: Global Environmental. Photography Online.
Delivery Time Frame: 11-09-2013
Response Time Frame: High Priority
Elements to Include:
• Images of animals, scenery and landmarks.
• Explore to website.
• The Rule of Thirds.
• Working the Lines in Your Photography (how to use horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines).
• Finding Fresh Angles to Shoot From.
• Photographing Children – Composition.
• Getting Horizons Horizontal.
• Getting Images Straight.
• Fill Your Frame.
• The Importance of Focal Points.
• Creating Active Space - Photographing Moving Subjects.
• Getting Backgrounds Right.
• Framing Your Shots.
• How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography.
• 4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography.
• How to Break the ‘Rules’ of Photography.
• Jpeg files are acceptable for this task, but at 300dpi resolution, change to CMYK Colour Mode.
• Bleed (3mm).
• Include thumbnail sketches (scan them in and put in ARTWORK folder).
• Make sure you set up your folders accordingly – LINKS, ARTWORK and COPY folders and remember the InDesign file and the PDF file belong in the root folder.
• Something new – go to File > Package, (see InDesign’s built-in Help Menu about the Packaging option).
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Layout must show evidence of using:
1.
Creating and Applying Master Pages
Refer
to Technology 3 Learning Activity 12.
2.
Auto page numbering (tip
– this must be set up on the Master Page to work properly)
http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/layout-design-9.html
3.
Linking Text Boxes
http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/threading-text.html
http://www.creativepro.com/article/on-the-move-to-indesign-linking-two-text-frames
4.
Character and Paragraph styles / formatting
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WS9D351498-DAAC-4be1-B4B8-2B6C72FF6CEDa.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSE33E49F9-94CE-4043-AA51-4761408A63F4a.html
(adding
a drop cap)
http://adobe-indesign.wonderhowto.com/how-to/build-complex-layouts-adobe-indesign-cs5-358659/
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