Composition question
Oct 16, 2018 14:47:22 #
Yes, moving the rectangle is way easier in Photoshop, and that's what I was thinking about. It was just hard to describe how to do this, if it happened that you were not familiar with doing it.
" shape/color/light/dark": I find it helps to think of these as two dimensional visual events on a flat plan that exists within a rectangle....quite apart from, though literally forming, the "subject matter", which could be describable in words.
Composition, to me, is about the satisfying arrangement of these visual elements: the visual description, if you will, of the totality of visual events in a single unified piece of work. It is an expressive element...it could be placid and static, as in symmetry; it could be tumultuous, as in a Jackson Pollack painting; it could evoke many different emotions that play out between the two. Composition "says" something, using visual terms alone.
I've attached a couple of examples. Same subject: different emotions. Which is more serene and why? It is the form of the works that answers this for you...the composition.
" shape/color/light/dark": I find it helps to think of these as two dimensional visual events on a flat plan that exists within a rectangle....quite apart from, though literally forming, the "subject matter", which could be describable in words.
Composition, to me, is about the satisfying arrangement of these visual elements: the visual description, if you will, of the totality of visual events in a single unified piece of work. It is an expressive element...it could be placid and static, as in symmetry; it could be tumultuous, as in a Jackson Pollack painting; it could evoke many different emotions that play out between the two. Composition "says" something, using visual terms alone.
I've attached a couple of examples. Same subject: different emotions. Which is more serene and why? It is the form of the works that answers this for you...the composition.
Oct 16, 2018 15:35:21 #
Oct 16, 2018 16:35:39 #
When did you shoot the Pieta? It's hard to get good photographic access these days.
Oct 16, 2018 17:46:17 #
Oct 16, 2018 17:56:31 #
Not my photo...I simply used these online-posted photos to illustrate a point.
Oct 16, 2018 23:02:18 #
SWFeral
Loc: SWNM
Without having read anyone else's comment, I like the first. The inclusion of the pale tree trunks at the upper left give more of a sense of the surroundings, which make that image more compelling.
Oct 17, 2018 00:29:44 #
Did a tighter crop to remove dead space and distractions. Boosted the exposure and added a slight vignette. Made a clarity adjustment, too.
This photo works in part because of vibrant color. The color contrast of red and green adds to the bang of it.
This photo works in part because of vibrant color. The color contrast of red and green adds to the bang of it.
Diocletian wrote:
Which do you like better? I know the focus isn't perfect (hand held and I vibrate like an energy bunny) but I'd like feedback on what you think of the composition. This is an exercise in color.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Edited slightly
Oct 19, 2018 13:56:15 #
Oct 19, 2018 13:57:19 #
davefales wrote:
When did you shoot the Pieta? It's hard to get good photographic access these days.
Hell, I MADE it, I should have access!!!!
Oct 19, 2018 13:58:45 #
Oct 19, 2018 15:36:00 #
Diocletian wrote:
I like David better
According to the story, Michelangelo overheard someone saying something like, "Boy, that Pieta by Bernini is great!" So, he snuck back in to St. Peter's one night and chiseled in Latin, "Michaelangelo Buonaroti [his last name] made this" on the Blessed Virgin's sash. True or not, it is the only sculpture he signed.
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