Composition #1: Diagonals, Triangles, Rule of Thirds

I felt inspired by my neighborhood for this first assignment, so I decided to explore deeper and see what ideas I can come up with. First, I searched for inspirations around my house. Then, I walked around my community and I noticed that I viewed objects in a different perspective. 

Diagonal Rule

When I walked into the kitchen, I saw different bottles of herbs or sauces that lined up in a random order. Therefore, I organized them from the tallest to the shortest. A diagonal line is formed from the top of the bottles. After that, I walked to my beloved piano and looked at it from a fresh perspective. The diagonal lines are created by the edges of the keyboard. The staircase formed a trapezoid shape, which contained a few different diagonal lines. The last two pictures are taken near my house and the diagonal lines are special because they can be the edges of the building or the streets.

Rule of Thirds 

The rule of thirds was quite challenging because it was more specific and requires certain angles. I placed the cake pop on one of those intersection boxes and made the newspaper as the background. The window is taking up one-third of the picture, so are the flowers on the next picture. The macarons are inspired by an online picture. The red macaron is the focus of the picture and the other three are just filling up the one-third space. Finally, my beloved again! The keyboard fills up one-third of the picture and the rest is mostly black.

Triangle Rule

I decided to be more creative for the last triangular set. I saw the interesting scene where the shrubs’ pot created a triangle so I immediately photographed it. The ice cream itself formed a triangle and the cones behind it formed a bigger triangle. The other two (rubix cubes and the drums) form an obvious triangle. Lastly, the three food shown on the table formed a triangle.