When photographing most landscape scenes the the horizon is the single most important graphic element within the scene, especially when there are no outstanding points of interest. This exercise was to show how positioning the horizon at different points within the frame can have important effect on how the final photograph would look.
Image 1
In image 1, I placed the horizon in the top third of the frame. The rocky river bank and muddy water of the river create a huge expanse of area with little or no interest. The horizon placed in this position clearly does not work for this scene.
Image 2
For image 2, I placed the horizon approximately half way across the photograph. The clouds are now more visible, however there is still a large brown area in the lower half of the photograph.
Image 2 works slightly better than image 1, and if the river had been cleaner, the contrast between the river bank and water would have created slightly more interest.
(The river is normally a nice deep blue colour, but due to the recent heavy rain the mud and silt had washed down the river causing it to become brown and muddy).
Image 3
The Horizon in image 3 is now been moved to the lower third of the frame. The clouds are more dramatic and less of the muddy foreground is visible. As the sky has lot more interest than the foreground, hence creating more interest in for the viewer.
Image 4
Finally the horizon in image 4 was placed near to the bottom of the frame. This has the effect of the sky and clouds dominating the photograph. The river bank is now out of view and the muddy river occupies less than a 1/4 of the frame.
For this photograph the foreground is uninteresting and the sky and clouds are dramatic, so the middle to low horizon works best in this situation. Image 3 has the best combination of sky/clouds and foreground, whereas image 4 is dominated by the sky, this in my opinion overwhelms the photograph. Image 3 therefore is the better composition for this scene.
No comments:
Post a Comment