Monday, October 15, 2012

Creating Visual Interest Part One: Compositional Tricks and Tools

So far our focus in class has been how to get a well exposed picture which has primarily been about learning to use the camera as a technician. As we have discussed, it is necessary to know these things but this will only get you so far. We are going to build on the technical and move into the more artistic realm now.
Part One will focus on Compositional Tools. Contemplate the pictures below:

John Alexander Photography






Dougie Cunninham
 
Phillip Colla

 
All 4 are well exposed Landscape shots but I would argue the last three are more visually interesting than the first. Why? Because of some simple Compositional Tricks, Lead-in Lines, Rule of Thirds and Framing.

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