1. Explain the purpose of framing, balance and visual weight
Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.
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Framing, Balance and Visual Weight
Learn to use placement, space, edges, lines, layers and visual weight.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to use placement, space, edges, lines, layers and visual weight
Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.
3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.
4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why framing, balance and visual weight matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to use placement, space, edges, lines, layers and visual weight.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Photograph one balanced frame, one intentionally unbalanced frame and one frame within a frame.
Safe and responsible practice: Represent people and places honestly and remove distractions by changing position first.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Photograph one balanced frame, one intentionally unbalanced frame and one frame within a frame.
Good-practice checklist
The main subject is clear
Every frame adds new information
Complete the practical activity for framing, balance and visual weight
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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