Troop 174

Scouting Photography

Photographic Themes

Click the hotlinks to see how our website applies traditional photographic themes to Scouting.  Except for Leadership and Service there is nothing inherently Scouting about these themes, and there need not be for good pictures.

Log of recent changes at bottom of page.

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Composition for all Pictures

 

Fill the Frame
Balance
Faces to Camera
Move Into Frame
 

Rule of Thirds
Solve the Corners
Avoid Attendance

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Traditional Themes

 

Action: Athletic Frozen
Action: Non-Athletic
Action: Speed
Action: Sports
 

Before and After
Birds of a Feather
Boats
Break Rule: Central
 

Break Rule: Small
Calm
Childhood w/o Children
Converging Parallels
 

Costumes
Diagonal
Emotion: Happiness
Emotion: Love
 

Falling
Flames
Floating
Framing
 

Friends
Furniture
Glow
Ground Level
 

Hair
Hats
High Key
Hogarth's S-Curve
 

Humor
Interaction
Landscapes
Landscape Foreground
 

Landscape Natural
Lines
Lonesome
Men and Their Toys
 

Moving Water
Negative Space
Night - Low Key
Occupations
 

Ordinary- Extraordinary
Outhouses
Outside, Looking In
Painted Face
 

Partial Subject
Patriotism
Patterns
Pet Portraits
 

Portraits
Radial Balance
Reflections
Scale
 

Silhouettes
Splash of Color
Straight Up / Down
Strength
 

Submerged
Sweetness
Swooping Curve
Tell a Story
 

Trinity
Unusual
Weather
Windows
       

Winterscapes
Winter Sports

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Scouting Themes

 

Leadership
Service

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In Combination - Putting it All Together


Many Themes per Photo

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Thank You

See All Troop 174 Photos from 1974 to now in the troop gallery, with  photo credits to the troop members who took these photos and to whom I give a big thank you.

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Next Steps

Articles on photo composition.
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Recent Updates

Nov. 24, 2007 Emotion: Happiness, Emotion: Love, Swooping Curve.
Nov. 23, 2007 Unusual.
Nov. 22, 2007 Before and After, Calm, Converging Parallels, Hats, Negative Space, Ordinary- Extraordinary, Partial Subject, Patterns, Silhouettes, Strength, Unusual, Service.

Sept. 22, 2007 New page: Outhouses.
Sept. 22, 2007:  Fill the Frame, Diagonal, Flames, Friends, Men and Their Toys, Night - Low Key, Patterns, Straight Up / Down, Splash of Color, Sweetness, Trinity, Unusual, Leadership, Service.

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Boy Scout Troop 174, Yorktown, NY.  http://troop174.info