1. Explain the purpose of smartphone composition
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Smartphone Composition
Learn to use edges, layers, grid, viewpoint and negative space.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to use edges, layers, grid, viewpoint and negative space
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why smartphone composition 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 edges, layers, grid, viewpoint and negative space.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Make six frames using a different composition device in each.
Safe and responsible practice: Protect location data and personal information, obtain consent and back up before editing or deleting.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Make six frames using a different composition device in each.
Good-practice checklist
The lens is clean
Focus, exposure and privacy were checked
Complete the practical activity for smartphone composition
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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