Exercise 7: Object in different positions in the frame
Find another subject, this time one that is very clear and set within a large, even background. You are going to take a series of photographs in which you place the subject in different positions in the frame. As in the last exercise, you should make first exposure without thinking too much about this, in other words, compose the shot naturally and quickly. Later you will be able to compare this with the other versions.
Then take about four or five images with the subject in different positions:
When your result have been processed, lay them out and put them in order of preference. Which version appears to work the most comfortably? Which the least? AS you assess that you ahve done concentrate on the relationship between the subject and its background. Where the subject was placed in the middle of the frame, the subject will certainly be prominent, but the background may not central mass: it has been ´punctured, so that it just surrounds the subject equally. Compare this version with your others. Do you think this makes the subject and background work together?
Then take about four or five images with the subject in different positions:
- right in the centre
- a little way from the centre
- close to an edge or corner
When your result have been processed, lay them out and put them in order of preference. Which version appears to work the most comfortably? Which the least? AS you assess that you ahve done concentrate on the relationship between the subject and its background. Where the subject was placed in the middle of the frame, the subject will certainly be prominent, but the background may not central mass: it has been ´punctured, so that it just surrounds the subject equally. Compare this version with your others. Do you think this makes the subject and background work together?
_My feedback
I did´t expect this was very difficult and that I would find it easy to get a subject for this exercise but for some reason as hard as I looked I couldn’t find something in the middle of a plain area.I live in a city so there is no field around. Just in the city park but it is always busy there and never I have the park for my self. I thought of trees in fields near home but when I got there I realised I would need another subject. I tough about a painting on the wall and placing my a friend in a field outside the city centre.
I think the two images below are my favourites:
I did´t expect this was very difficult and that I would find it easy to get a subject for this exercise but for some reason as hard as I looked I couldn’t find something in the middle of a plain area.I live in a city so there is no field around. Just in the city park but it is always busy there and never I have the park for my self. I thought of trees in fields near home but when I got there I realised I would need another subject. I tough about a painting on the wall and placing my a friend in a field outside the city centre.
I think the two images below are my favourites: