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Photographic and cinematic composition terms

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Photographic and cinematic composition terms

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For the exam you also have to be familiar with a couple of photographic compositional techniques and terms so we will be covering these in this lesson. First of all you need to know what aspect ratio means. Essentially it means the orientation of the image whether it's landscape, portrait or square and also the proportions or relation between the height and the width of the image. So when I look at this image I can tell that it's a landscape format but more specifically I feel like it's close to a 16 by 9 aspect ratio which is widely used on computer screens, TVs and smartphones. Now how can we tell the actual aspect ratio? By using the crop tool we can select the image and we can type in the ratio up here or even use the drop-down menu so for instance if I choose 16 by 9 we can actually tell that it is exactly that aspect ratio but we can compare that to these other aspect ratios like 2 to 3 or 4 by 6 and we can even swap these two numbers around so this actually is a narrower aspect…

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