Exercise 11: Balance
(6 photographs)
Take a half a dozen of your own already-taken photographs, and decide how the balance works in each one. It doesn't matter whether the main elements in the picture are masses or tone or colour, or arrangement of points or lines. Look for what seems to you the dominant part (or parts) of the image. Identify them in a small rectangular sketch, as in the examples., and sketch the weighing ´scale´interpretation.
Now compare the different pictures. Did you find it easier to identify the balance in some of them than in others? in general, the simpler the composition of a photograph - that is, the fewer and more distinct the elements - the more obvious the balance will be.
Take a half a dozen of your own already-taken photographs, and decide how the balance works in each one. It doesn't matter whether the main elements in the picture are masses or tone or colour, or arrangement of points or lines. Look for what seems to you the dominant part (or parts) of the image. Identify them in a small rectangular sketch, as in the examples., and sketch the weighing ´scale´interpretation.
Now compare the different pictures. Did you find it easier to identify the balance in some of them than in others? in general, the simpler the composition of a photograph - that is, the fewer and more distinct the elements - the more obvious the balance will be.