Design Tips: How to manage photo book composition

Diagonal, sequences and the golden section: who knows basic compositional rules, can give a picture book to the rhythm. The trade magazine "Docma" describes twelve tricks composition. Quite intuitively you will see a photo to be particularly successful? Then you look at it closely. You may have unconsciously the classical rules of composition applied, which must now be recorded.

Because you can take advantage of the composition to create a photo book that follows in the true sense of the rules of art. Every picture follows - consciously or unconsciously recorded - the principles of composition, which were acquired in the course of centuries in architecture and fine arts.


More specifically, it is the joining of design elements such as shape, color and proportion to the whole. Area, limiting the area which is read as a line segment and determine colors as abstracted figurative images in the same degree. The whole thing seems to be concentrated conglomerate of individual items that meet almost like actors their roles.

To the classical principles of composition are the golden section, symmetry and asymmetry, diagonal, row, pairs of opposites, plurality and unity, graphic versus Picturesque, area and depth as well as closed and open forms. Photo Specifically have to add focus and blur. Take the time to examine your favorite photos after all these criteria.

You'll find formal and substantive similarities that are indicative of your own work. All criteria can also apply to the layout in the photo book, with mirror and baseline grid should remain consistent. Summarize individual work groups where appropriate chapters together in order to preserve their unity.

Compliance with rules of composition is still no guarantee of good photos and layouts. Sometimes you will find that just takes the deliberate ignoring of rules on particularly creative results. Let unconventional when it serves the photos and your photo book. At the end of your analysis is the choice of which photo book format.

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