photography is as important as illustration in ux/ui
you can use golden ratio when photographing
rule of thirds is also important
photography roles
- interest and attractiveness
- Illustrate ideas and products
- Communicate information or data
- create a sense of brand identity
- enhance the user experience by providing context
- People tend to believe that things that look better will work better
- Decorative images ; images that give users excitement but not much information , might get away in the content
- information carrying image ; users can get information and value from the image
- use high quality images
- optimised images ; use images that are not too large, you can use photoshop to decrease the size of the images
- use images that are consistent with your brand
- Accessible images ; images need a alt tag ( alt tag gives a description of the image)
- color and contrast ; use contrast checker , https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ , for color blind people to see your content