Sunday, 26 June 2011

exercise fitting the frame to the subjuect.




For this exercise I decided to do some still life work, and used a vase I had brought many years ago on a holiday to Cyprus. I took the first photograph quickly without giving it a lot of thought , the second one was taken having given it more thought so that the vase filled the picture, number three was just a section ogf it, I chose the tip section to highlight the swirl on the handle and also the gold work around the top. The last photograph was taken so that the vase was alot smaller in the photograph.
I then hand a pair of L shapes and tried various 'crops' of the photographs, I found that I could crop number 1 and number 4 to make a better photograph, so that they filled the frame better number two I found worked as it was and number 3 I found I could do a slightly tighter crop to just show the neck of the vase and the handle.

What have I learned from this lesson? I have learnt that it is possible to have a good photograph of just part of an object or a scene it is not always necessary to show the whole object and sometime by picking a certain part you can convay a better message or photograph.

2 comments:

Mike Kinsey said...

This has some merit but doesn't stretch your possibilities. The background is a little false and the horizonline interfears with the composition- the change form white to wood.
Why not use the item outdours - say on a rockery or by a water feature- this would enhance the image making process for you. However its good to see you are moving on well with the exercises
regards
Mike

Phillipa said...

HI Mike

Thanks for your comments, as always I will take heed of them and try the exercises again at a later date