Formal Elements

Texture

Surface quality of an object done so well it gives a sense of how it feels through touch.

The fur on this models dress gives the viewer an idea of how it feels which it what the photographer Herb Ritts wants. I think this uses the technique of texture really well.

lines

Important to the improvement of composition in two ways, first they serve to create a mood and then to draw the viewers eyes through a certain point of the image. 

For example this photographic draws your eyes to the women walking towards the camera in the corner of the surrounding because the brick wall is shot in a good angle from where she is froze in the picture, looks as if the lines are passing her by.

Space

This can be adjusted to create negative or positive really depending on how you’d decide the use of models and which emotion you would want to capture.

Seems that the fact the little girl is looking into the light from inside a tunnel with a curious posture in reasonable amount of space, gives a positive sense because its metaphor to her beginning a long and perhaps joyful life. Now on the other hand the photo of want I assume is a elderly gentleman seems to be more dark due to his structure being every straight and serious like he is also thinking about whats to come of his life but in a different way to the first image.

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Angle of view: birds eye and worms eye 

birds eye view is when the camera is above looking down to a surrounding area good for landscapes and high structured buildings, where worms eye view on the other hand is at ground level around shoe height can be pointed in many directions upwards straight forwards great for lots of different captures such as angles where it goes up trees, buildings.

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Shadowing 

can be useful for setting many moods creepy, mystery or to invent a overall massage

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