Exercise 12: Positioning the horizon
(6 photographs)
In designing a photograph there are countless situations in which you will need to divide the picture frame into two or more fairly distinct areas. This may be because the scene has different blocks of colour, or has clear areas of light and shade. The commonest is the view that includes the horizon, which naturally divides a landscape between sky and land, usually in a more-or-less straight line. If there are no obvious point of interest in the view, the horizon line can be the most important element in the picture.
Find a viewpoint outdoors that gives you a reasonably interesting landscape in which there is n unbroken and clear horizon. View the scene through the camera and consider the difference positions in which you could arrange the horizon line in the frame. These go from right at the bottom of the picture to right at the top, but how many distinct positions can you see? Now take a photograph of each, so that you end up with a short sequence in which the horizon is ranged from top to bottom. It is important to think about each placement of the horizon as you do this, and note whether, at the time, you think it works.
In designing a photograph there are countless situations in which you will need to divide the picture frame into two or more fairly distinct areas. This may be because the scene has different blocks of colour, or has clear areas of light and shade. The commonest is the view that includes the horizon, which naturally divides a landscape between sky and land, usually in a more-or-less straight line. If there are no obvious point of interest in the view, the horizon line can be the most important element in the picture.
Find a viewpoint outdoors that gives you a reasonably interesting landscape in which there is n unbroken and clear horizon. View the scene through the camera and consider the difference positions in which you could arrange the horizon line in the frame. These go from right at the bottom of the picture to right at the top, but how many distinct positions can you see? Now take a photograph of each, so that you end up with a short sequence in which the horizon is ranged from top to bottom. It is important to think about each placement of the horizon as you do this, and note whether, at the time, you think it works.
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