The way you practice for your photos by framing pictures, setting up your pictures is the way they will turn out in real life. By directing the viewer’s attention to the center of interest and positioning of the subject to create contrast gives added emphasis. Tonal and color contrast in foreground and background at emphasis to a picture.
When we speak of contrast as it relates to composition, we are referring to both tonal contrast, as in black-and-white photography, and color contrast as it relates to color photography. In black-and-white photography, contrast is the difference in subject tones from white-to-gray-to-black or from the lightest tone to the darkest tone. In color photography different colors create contrast.
Low-key and high-key pictures convey mood and atmosphere. When a photo scene contains mostly dark tones or colors, it is called low key . When a photo scene contains mostly light tones, it is called high key. Low key colors suggests seriousness and mystery, such in a thunderstorm. On the other hand, high key creates a feeling of delicacy and lightness.
The secret for creating a better and different picture is remembering a better and different past action. Musicians and athletes have known this for years; "The way you practice is the way you’ll play in real life."
Even in life, memory and future are interrelated with the past and if one can remember the good things in the past, good things in the future are more apt to fly in to view. The thinkers say that future thought is impossible without memories. Do you remember the hurts, frustrations and pain of the past or the joys, beauty and thrill of accomplishment?
We paint future pictures by imagining ourselves doing what we want to do. If we remember a different past the future will change. If having practiced setting up and framing pictures in a certain better way, when the opportunity arrives, you’ll snap a better picture
