Composition
While good exposure, for example, is a technical requirement necessary for a good image, it is composition that makes a good picture. Composition, of course, is a more subjective practice. There are no rules, only guidelines. Ultimately your aim is to produce a piece that will resonate with you and others.
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Some compositional ingredients:
viewpoint
background
depth
symmetry
natural frames
cropping
strong diagonal lines and/or curves
patterns
shape
texture
light
tone
At the end of the day, a good composition is one of balance. Strive for balance.
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"L'oeuvre d'art est un équilibre hors du temps, une santé artificielle."
ReplyDeleteAndré Gide ( Journal)
Correspondances
ReplyDeleteLa Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
II est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
— Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.
— Charles Baudelaire
Translation:
Correspondences
Nature is a temple in which living pillars
Sometimes give voice to confused words;
Man passes there through forests of symbols
Which look at him with understanding eyes.
Like prolonged echoes mingling in the distance
In a deep and tenebrous unity,
Vast as the dark of night and as the light of day,
Perfumes, sounds, and colors correspond.
There are perfumes as cool as the flesh of children,
Sweet as oboes, green as meadows
— And others are corrupt, and rich, triumphant,
With power to expand into infinity,
Like amber and incense, musk, benzoin,
That sing the ecstasy of the soul and senses.
— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)