 Maurice Chung |
Critique of Composition For Two Pictures?
I just discovered this site today and must say it's already been very informative, although I'm a newbie so pretty much *anything* is news to me =) I bought a digital camera about a year and a half ago so I could take loads of pictures during graduation season (I and thirty of my friends were all graduating). For the most part I was content taking pictures of funny events and gatherings, and also having a sort of 'pictorial diary' of events, which I really enjoy as I look back through the past year's pictures month by month. Lately though I've gotten more and more interested in shooting landscapes and also some interesting forms and shapes, and these are two of my early forays into this. I was wondering if I might get some feedback on style, framing, I-don't-even-know-the-right-terminology-for-it-yet other parameters? Thanks very much in advance =)
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Ms. Shan Canfield |
The Lake Michigan shot. Love the mood, the colors and the composition but I think the horizon line needs to be 180 degrees. It appears to be going downward on the right. May be an illusion. If the shore and beach were not angled, I'd chid you for putting the horizon line at center, but because of the triangular sectioning of the elements, it works for me. The city shot. This is almost a perfect Golden Section Rectangle (an ancient template of design). Pretty cool!
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Maurice Chung |
Thanks for the reply! I usually shun horizons in the center of the picture too, it just looks too hokey, and the sky ends up looking cramped, but yeah for some reason it looked like it would work for this one. Regarding the Golden Rectangle...I vaguely remember learning about it in elementary school, but I forgot the mathematical parameters of it =) Which part of the picture here were you referring to (traces the Golden Rectangle)? Thanks again!
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Ms. Shan Canfield |
Here's my link to the rotating golden section rectangle. http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshop/goldensection.gif
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Ms. Shan Canfield |
Here's my link to the rotating golden section rectangle - Golden Section Rectangle
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dee |
Hi, Maurice.....I don't think Ms. Shan was referring to placement of the horizon in the middle of the picture.....I think she was saying that the horizon wasn't level. That was the first thing I noticed about the picture too. It is a very lovely photo - love the line of the shore leading the eye to the city, and the non-level horizon is easily corrected during print. Nice work.
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