Ex 1.2 EYV

Exercise 1.2 Point

There are essentially three classes of position [to place a single point]: in the middle, a little off-centre, and close to the edge.

Take two or three photographs in which a single point is placed in different parts of the frame. (A ‘point’ should be small in relationship to the frame; if it’s too large it becomes a shape.)

How can you evaluate the pictures? How do you know whether you’ve got it right or not? Is there a right place and a wrong place for the point? For the sake of argument, let’s say that the right place shouldn’t be too obvious and that the point should be clear and easy to see. As there’s now a ‘logic’ to it, you can evaluate your composition according to the logic of the point.

As you look at the pictures you might find that you’re also evaluating the position of the point by its relationship to the frame.

I decided to keep this exercise simple, as there was soya bean milk carton floating in the sea.


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Even with such a simple subject my brain switched to the rule of thirds; the shot where the carton is in the centre feels wrong to me, there is nothing for my brain to process or eyes to follow. When the object is in the bottom left or right third there is a much more balance, my brain has something to process.

Placing the point in relationship to the frame  – the image below is most pleasing to my sense of composition.

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