Saturday, 16 October 2010

Positioning the horizon

In each of the following shots we have divided the frame horizontally. By varying the position at which we have done this, we have created a different balance in each shot. Taking the first shot which has been divided equally as our reference, notice that the second shot has become about the foreground. The same does apply to the third shot and this appears more interesting to me than the second as it includes a little more sky. If the sky and foreground had been more interesting this may have been a nice picture.

















Moving on the the next three pictures. To me these are all skyscapes. The first really does not work for me. This picture would be better with no landscape at all. The second and third images on the bottom row are very similar - I did struggle to find a sixth image that was different from the first five. Both would have made impressive skyscapes had there been better clouds.

This exercise highlights that there can be many ways to represent a subject which may all work, but give a completely different impression.