Image Composition: Basic Decisions


Framing:

• Edge placement / Frame
• Include / Exclude
• Orientation | Horizontal / Vertical - Landscape / Portrait
• Background / Foreground
• Angle of View / Position / Perspective
• Balance

Compositional Elements

• Tone / Contrast
• Line / Spot
• Pattern / Repition
  

Guidelines of interest(rules of thumb)

• Golden Mean/Ratio
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
• Rule of Thirds
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
• Notan
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notan
• Chiaroscuro
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

Lens Selection
see: external links for additional resources regarding lens specifics



Other Links of interest:

Chromatics of The Analogy of Harmony