Photography Composition

Start with techniques

For a starting point, open Photo Techniques Flashcards. The deck pairs fast shutter speed with frozen motion and slow shutter speed with blurred motion. It also introduces aperture and focus. Use the cards to review the terms, then check whether you can recall the associations before looking at each answer.

Photography Techniques Flashcards covers some of the same ideas. You can use it to go over the terms again in a different deck.

Explore composition with mind maps

After the flashcards, look at Looking Through. Its branches include windows, archways, framing, a bird’s-eye view and different perspectives. Follow one branch at a time and notice the ways the map groups its ideas.

Pattern brings together locations, equipment and camera angles. Development of Colour includes filters, colored lights and associated colors and places. For ideas about atmosphere and reflections, explore Composition in the Environment.

Try pairing a flashcard deck with a mind map: review a technique in the cards, then look through a map for the angles, settings or ideas it brings together. The page has no quizzes, so the flashcards offer another way to check your recall.

Use the notes and connect the page

Angles & Backgrounds is a note about working with angles and backgrounds through trial and error. Read it after exploring the maps, then return to the branches on angles and perspective to compare the ideas.

Photography Composition is one section of Photographic Techniques in Photography and film. The flashcards on this page offer a way to connect technique terms with the composition ideas in the maps and note. Choose a resource and build your own study route through the collection.