Seeing Photographs Chapter 16 •Use the textbook (pages 341362) •Copy the questions, then answer them as thoroughly as possible in your own words. •Do not copy passages directly
from the book.
1. According to the textbook, looking through the __________ is the first step in visualizing a photograph.
2. What is Robert Capa’s famous suggestion for making your photographs better?
3. How is composing a photograph often different from creating a painting?
4. What are some examples of awkward cropping?
5. What is the author’s suggestion for choosing a horizontal or vertical composition?
6. How can you minimize the distraction of a busy background?
7. What element in a picture often attracts the most attention?
8. Describe the psychological effects of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zigzag & curved lines?
9. How can you make different things seem like a single unit in a photograph?
10. Describe 3 ways to emphasize the subject in a photograph.
11. How can you create “good tension” in a photograph?
12. People tend to look at the _______ part of a photograph first
13. Why is contrast sometimes more apparent in color than in black and white?
14. According to the author, should compositional rules (like the rule of thirds) be applied rigidly or flexibly? Why?
15. How can you distort size relationships using lenstosubject distance?