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In Mr Raza’s Art and Design class
Art Year 9 pupils have been learning the
principles of photography, increas-
ing their aesthetic skills, and under-
standing the world of communica-
tion all around them as a result.
Lights, Camera, Action! Below are examples of the areas cov-

ered and the best response

RULE OF THIRDS Khadija Soorty
The human eye prefers an image Place: Taif, Al Hada
that has been divided into three Time: Around 6 pm
equal parts and has the most hap- Weather: Cloudy, slightly rainy
pening along these lines. The ex- Subject: Mountain range with a cable car, dark col-
amples show this. The point of in- ours
terest can be along any of the lines Technique: Photo taken from cable car, used 0.5 zoom
and intersections.

FILL THE FRAME
Filling The Frame simply means Yasmeen Khalifa
to fill your photograph with more Place: Al Matlub Beach
of the subject. So instead of having Time: Around 1pm
negative space, or worrying about Weather: Quite cool, sort of windy
composition, you’re going to get Subject: A picture of a stone build-
closer {that’s where your feet come ing by the waters
in, WALK, move closer} and snap Technique: Had to climb an odd
it a little closer up. This means that looking rock.
you’re removing any distractions.
Fill the frame with the subjects you
want to be seen, this will natural-
ly mean that anything you don’t
want included will be pushed out-
side of the frame.

This is a picture of a piece of deco-
ration in my house called a plasma
ball. This picture was taken with “I took this photo in my living
no light in the room to make the room while Ibwas admiring how
light it generated more visible, beautifully my cat slept l, it was
making it the subject, and mak- 4 PM, there was nothing unusual
I hovered over a bush in my com- ing the subject brighter coloured. that lead to the photo. The weath-
pound and snapped a few shots, I had to turn off the lights on my er was probably warm but I did
then i chose the best one and ed- room and stand on the tips of my not check the weather when I took
ited it by adding a filter and crop- toes to take this picture. this photo as I was indoors”
ping it a little, i also played around Jad Hilal Karma Ali
with the hue and saturation”
Soona Osman

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