POP ART : Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

Who: The artists were Edward Hopper, James Gill, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann.

Where: the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States 

when:  the 50’s

Examples of pop art:

by Andy warhol 

 By Roy Lichtenstein 

 By James Gill  

Link to pop art tutorial: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/pop-art/

RULE OF THIRDS

• The rule of thirds is an essential photography technique. it can be applied to any subject to improve the composition and balance of your images.

BALANCING ELEMENTS

• Placing your main subject off-center, as with the rule of thirds,  creates a more interesting photo, but it can leave a void in the scene  which can make it feel empty. You should balance the “weight” of your  subject by including another object of lesser importance to fill the  space.

LEADING LINES

• you can affect the way we view the image, pulling us into the picture, towards the subject, or on a journey “through” the scene. There are many different types of lines and each can be used to enhance our photo

SYMMETRY & PATTERNS

• both natural and man-made., They can make for very eye-catching compositions, particularly in situations where they are not expected

VIEWPOINT

• Rather than just shooting from eye level, consider photographing from high above, down at ground level, from the side, from the back, from a long way away, from very close up, and so on.

BACKGROUND

•  look around for a plain and unobtrusive background and compose your shot so that it doesn’t distract or detract from the subject.

DEPTH

• You can create depth in a photo by including objects in the foreground, middle ground and background. Another useful composition technique is overlapping, where you deliberately partially obscure one object with another

FRAMING

• isolate the main subject from the outside world. The result is a more focused image which draws your eye naturally to the main point of interest.

CROPPING

• By cropping tight around the subject you eliminate the background “noise”, ensuring the subject gets the viewer’s undivided attention

EXPERIMENTATION

• If you can find a great picture just take it and then see if you like it later if you don’t then just delete is

 this is my fav pic because its when me my twin, two younger sisters and my aunts kids all hung out