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Which One?
Feb 12, 2019 00:01:46 #
treadwl wrote:
On a recent business trip to Connecticut I had the... (show quote)
Hi, treadwl,
My choice is number 1. In both images you gave the viewer some foreground snow on which to stand, but only in #1 is that “place to stand” an obvious part of the curve of the snow-covered strand that leads the viewer’s gaze up and over to the subject of it all !
Well composed! A fine example of good composition being an aid to the viewer rather than simply a conceit of the photographer.
Very nice job!
Dave Graham
Feb 13, 2019 08:55:42 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Hi, treadwl,
My choice is number 1. In both images you gave the viewer some foreground snow on which to stand, but only in #1 is that “place to stand” an obvious part of the curve of the snow-covered strand that leads the viewer’s gaze up and over to the subject of it all !
Well composed! A fine example of good composition being an aid to the viewer rather than simply a conceit of the photographer.
Very nice job!
Dave Graham
My choice is number 1. In both images you gave the viewer some foreground snow on which to stand, but only in #1 is that “place to stand” an obvious part of the curve of the snow-covered strand that leads the viewer’s gaze up and over to the subject of it all !
Well composed! A fine example of good composition being an aid to the viewer rather than simply a conceit of the photographer.
Very nice job!
Dave Graham
Thank you for the rationale. I like the way you described your thoughts. It was helpful.
Feb 13, 2019 09:11:24 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Hi, treadwl,
My choice is number 1. In both images you gave the viewer some foreground snow on which to stand, but only in #1 is that “place to stand” an obvious part of the curve of the snow-covered strand that leads the viewer’s gaze up and over to the subject of it all !
Well composed! A fine example of good composition being an aid to the viewer rather than simply a conceit of the photographer.
Very nice job!
Dave Graham
My choice is number 1. In both images you gave the viewer some foreground snow on which to stand, but only in #1 is that “place to stand” an obvious part of the curve of the snow-covered strand that leads the viewer’s gaze up and over to the subject of it all !
Well composed! A fine example of good composition being an aid to the viewer rather than simply a conceit of the photographer.
Very nice job!
Dave Graham
Im trying to get my head around "good composition being simply a conceit of the photographer".
Feb 14, 2019 14:42:22 #
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Hi, Mark,
Shoulgn’t be a long trip; just think of the number of images that have been made with slavish adherance to this or that rule of composition with absolutely no awareness that fudging this or that rule to accommodate a particular feature of the image and perhaps bring it more immediately to the viewer’s attention , perhaps even by obviously, flagrantly waving the broken rule in the face of the show’s judges ...and winning the People’s Choice” award! And of course, the better, more experienced judges fully perceive and often appreciate and value the obviously broken rule when it workes to the image’s advantage.
The rules are merely cogent suggestions, and are not graven in stone. Some mentally lay out a “thirds grid”...while some others prefer a 5/8 grid...??? What works, works.
Some images are made conforming very well to this or that compositional rule, with the artis obviously never having given though about the advantage to have been gained by starting out with yet a different compositional approach.
Don McVee, one of our colleagues here in UHH, and a maker of some superb wildlife images, once set the concept of “ balance” on its ear ...or perhaps utilized it to a sublime extreme...with this magnificent image:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-496537-1.html
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Dave
fergmark wrote:
Im trying to get my head around "good composition being simply a conceit of the photographer".
Hi, Mark,
Shoulgn’t be a long trip; just think of the number of images that have been made with slavish adherance to this or that rule of composition with absolutely no awareness that fudging this or that rule to accommodate a particular feature of the image and perhaps bring it more immediately to the viewer’s attention , perhaps even by obviously, flagrantly waving the broken rule in the face of the show’s judges ...and winning the People’s Choice” award! And of course, the better, more experienced judges fully perceive and often appreciate and value the obviously broken rule when it workes to the image’s advantage.
The rules are merely cogent suggestions, and are not graven in stone. Some mentally lay out a “thirds grid”...while some others prefer a 5/8 grid...??? What works, works.
Some images are made conforming very well to this or that compositional rule, with the artis obviously never having given though about the advantage to have been gained by starting out with yet a different compositional approach.
Don McVee, one of our colleagues here in UHH, and a maker of some superb wildlife images, once set the concept of “ balance” on its ear ...or perhaps utilized it to a sublime extreme...with this magnificent image:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-496537-1.html
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Dave
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