Sunday, 12 February 2012

Exercise fifteen preparation: Positioning a point

The brief for this exercise is to take 3 shots composed with just a single point. The point being the most fundamental design element of a photograph.

Firstly, I've brainstormed possible compositions that could contain a single point.  There are too many to list, so here are the highlights:
  • Graffiti on a wall
  • A distant shot of a golfer on the fairway
  • The moon in the night sky
  • A lone horse in a field
  • A person in the distance walking on the beach
In preparation for the exercise I've looked through my existing library of photos for examples of images that contain a single point. 






It's worth noting that I've realised that I don't have a natural tendency to compose images with a single point (as these are the only images that I have that fit the brief).

As the study material point out, I should avoid being drawn to images on the grounds of colour when completing this next section of the course.  The door handle is a case in point - the vivid blue alongside the green was my motive for taking the shot at the time.  So from here on in I'll be endeavouring to convert images to black and white.

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