10. Pattern.

It is not only a high camera angle over your subjects that tends to emphasize their pattern representing harmony and order, but also filling up the picture area's frame with the repeating shapes, colors and forms photographed from any camera angle and level, could be used by you as a good device for a compositional arrangement that will allow you to strengthen a single theme or motive in a photograph. I used my Bogen tripod, Kodachrome 64 film, Minolta x-700 at 1 second shutter speed, and a 70-210 zoom telephoto lens set at f.32 photographing the rottunda of the Casa Loma castle in Toronto, Canada seen on the photo below.

Nature and every day scenes that surround us are full of patterns that could be photographed by you, nevertheless and often, it is your camera's position tilted at a certain angle, that allows you to see, incorporate in your composition, transfer on film, and capture, even a randomly arranged at first glance, array of elements of your subject into certain patterns that look pleasing and attractive to the eye. The image of the children during the St.Patrick's Day Parade was shot using Bogen tripod, Kodachrome 64 film, Minolta x-700 at 1/60 of a second shutter speed, and a 200-500 zoom telephoto lens set at f.8.

Thus, a repetition of shapes, spots, forms and lines in a pattern, as well as the uniformity in color as in the photo above, not only can add interest to your photo-subject, but also unite some or all of the elements in the picture. Similar shapes and colors of the objects make up a pattern into which they can be arranged by a high and low camera positions.

Creating order out of confusion, pattern sometimes could be a product of a strong and contrasting lighting falling across a textured surface, or on the contrary, its eveness when the color and shape repetition, responding best to the flat lighting condition forces the viewer of the picture to compare and unite objects and their shapes into a uniformed single motive. Using a dark background for an array of repeated light subjects and vice-versa, rewards you by emphasizing the pattern too. The photo of this hot rod was taken during the Hot Rod Meet and was shot using Bogen tripod, Kodachrome 64 film, Minolta x-700 set at 1/60 of a second shutter speed, and a 200-500 zoom telephoto lens set at f.8 as well.