Composition Study - Bird Bathby
PGerstComment by NiallOTuama: Originally posted by JustCaree:
What is the purpose of this? What does it teach you? |
If I understand it right it's to see how the placement and angle of the subject of a photo affects the photo. That's basically what composition is -- what the photo composes of?
PGerst (in the forums) said: "Here is an example of something I did today. The photos aren't pretty, they aren't supposed to be."
It's a good idea, but I think the point would be better illustrated with a 'pretty photo' where some angles simply... don't work. It might be a challenge in itself to do that, so this works well.
However. You can still read things from these shots. At the first three distances you can't really see anything worthwhile (with the first one in particular you don't know it's a bird bath), and most of the picture is highly illuminated with the bright sun. How can we get rid of this? Step forward some.
At the last two distances you begin to see something that might be interesting, but there is still a lot of light when crawling. Depending on what was on the bath a certain angle might be more provocative than the others -- if there was a small bird you'd want to be standing. For a large one, any of the stances might work.
That's how I read it anyway. Hope I'm right :)
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