Contrast, Emphasis, Balance, Perspective, and Proportion

 Contrast (Size contrast,shape contrast, texture/color contrast) : the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.

  

- Emphasis: (center of interest) is an area that first attracts attention in a composition. This area is more important when compared to the other objects or elements in a composition.  This can be by contrast of values, more colors, and placement in the format.

  

- Balance (informal balance, and formal balance)- Formal/Symmetrical balance:  Each side of the vertical center of a photograph has equal weight and have similar or exactly the same shape, texture, and value contrast.Informal/Asymmetrical Balance: The objects have nearly the same "visual weight" on either side of the vertical center of the photograph composition, but are different in size, shape, texture, or value.

 

- Perspective: the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

 

- Proportion:refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design. The issue is the relationship between objects, or parts, of a whole.