For this set of photgraphs I headed off to the local park with a friend in tow to pose for me.
I started off by positioning her in the middle of the frame, this I thinked worked the best the focal point was right in the middle of the photograph where the eye seems to naturally be drawn.
Number two this time I took her standing at the bottom right of the picture looking into an empty space, I quite like this one as she is looking into the space in the picture.
Number three was taken with her in the top right hand side, this one didn't seem to work so well as the eye seems to miss her and is again drawn to the centre of the photograph.
The last one I took she was to the bottom right of the photograph, I did not like the position of this one at all ther seems to be too much empty space and she is looking out of the frame.
What have I learnt?
I have learnt that you need to think carefully about where you position whatever you are photographing, sometimes it works well the the subject in the middle but there are other times when you can have the subjuct to one side but you then need to think carefully particulally if you are photographing people where they are looking.
For this exercise I also tried to use the model in slightly different poses to see if that made any difference to the photograph, my favorite ones are where she is kneeling down.
1 comment:
Hi Phillipa, I can see a long suffering friend helped here to give you time for your composition and use of the frame. You have the hang of it . You are using it well to create space that interacts with the subject. If you lookat images remember we read from left to right in the western world. Therefore if your subject faces to the right and is on the left side trhis gives a more conventional expectancy for the space.
I would have said that you could have had an all green background in some shots which would have helped and beward the horizonline interfearing with the composition.
Seems like your going along just fine
regards
Mike
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