Artistic Vision: Providing Contextual Guidance for Capture-Time Decisions

With the increased popularity of cameras, more and more people are interested in learning photography. People are willing to invest in expensive cameras as a medium for their artistic expression, but few have access to in-person classes to help improve upon their artistic skills. Inspired by critique sessions common in in-person art practice classes, we propose design principles for creative learning. We focus on applying these principles to design new interfaces that provide contextual in-camera feedback to aid users in learning visual elements of photography. We interactively visualize results of image processing algorithms as additional information for the user at capture-time. In this paper, we describe our design principles, and apply these principles in the design of three guided photography interfaces: one to explore lighting options for a portrait, one to highlight overall composition, and one to aid in de-cluttering.