Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
Richard Sandler took black and white pictures in the 1980s of New York City, showing its urban life, the city's struggle, poverty and crime and also the AIDs epidemic. This giving people the raw image and honest image of the streets.
Rule of 3rd
This image on the right, shows me using a picture from Richard Sandler's photos, and implying the rule of 3rds.
Rule of 3rds is dividing an image into 9 equal parts, two horizontal and two vertical lines, with 4 intersection points. The idea of this is to organize where to put your most important subjects in the picture, based on the grid, this is because it makes your picture more interesting and engaging, so whoever is looking at your picture or video, their eyes go straight to the main subject, instead of their eyes wandering off.
Leading lines
Leading lines is where lines, either naturally made in the scene, or can be intercepted, that naturally guide the watchers eye to the main focal point. For example like a road, and at the end is the main subject, or something more subtle.
Golden spiral
The golden spiral is a mathematical equation that shows a spiral going around by the corners of a rectangle formed by the Fibonacci sequence. This is inputted into movies and pictures, by directing the viewers eye through the frame, and then leading them to another subject. As shown in this picture from Lord of the Rings.
Frame within a frame
This technique is positioning your main subject within another frame, other than the screen, thus the name, frame within a frame. So in this picture you can see the character being positioned in the middle of the girls leg, which is the frame within a frame. This creates a more visually appealing and structured scene.
