Deoridhe of Primdolls has a really interesting and useful tutorial on Second Life photography composition which is probably valuable for RL photographers too. (For that matter, practicing composition with virtual world screenshots is probably a great, cost effective way to improve your photography chops.) Take her analysis of this photo above, by Lyndzay Meili:
In sharp contrast, Meili creates a sense of balance using extreme depth. In reality, the van would be much larger than the figure. In the image, it's smaller. Telephone poles are back as a visual element, this time at an angle to draw your eyes back and to reinforce the distance between figure and vehicle. The placement of both is also striking, in terms of balance. The vehicle is at the bottom third point of the image, coming into screen and bringing your eye up along the telephone lines to the taller figure, which is closer to the edge. A bit of grass hints at ground without actually showing it.
Hat tip: Cajsa, who artfully composes pics on It's Only Fashion.
Thanks for linking to me!
This is third - Balance - in a longer series on Mike Vargas' 86 Aspects of Composition, and is more an exploration than a tutorial per se. Vargas made a fantastic list of different ways to look at composition in all forms of art - I'm just choosing to focus on photography - that is really encouraging me to think about the deeper implications of how we make art. Breath is the Aspect for next week, and finding images that applies to has really been a challenge!
Also, for ease of finding posts, I'm tagging each post, and I made a menu which lists each aspect with links back to when I covered it.
Posted by: Deoridhe Quandry | Friday, January 22, 2016 at 09:46 PM