The above shot from Weston Beach has a rugged feel due to a fairly high-contrast rendering. Low-contrast images have a softer mellower impact.
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Let’s move on.Ĭontrast NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 ISO 100, 1/200, f/11.0Ĭontrast – do I need to define this? Suffice it to say high-contrast images tend to give a harsh, sometimes uneasy, feel like in the cactus shot earlier. I could blather on about converging lines, “V”’s and such for pages, but this is the stuff of any composition how-to. Lines or curves coming together can create forms. If lines repeat they can form patterns and a very regular pattern can create a texture. On a poor composition it gets stuck as bad as a piece of legislation in DC. Mapping your eye movements is a cool way to learn about composition – look at some of your favorite pictures and track how you eye moves about the composition – on a good photo it keeps moving. When I view this simple composition my eye first goes to the heavy thick trunk of the tree, then shoots up the branch to the perched osprey the osprey is looking right and this moves my eye to the top to the branch to the right, from whence it travels down that branch to the trunk and right back where it started to take another loop. Lines lead our eye to move about the composition and not get stuck in one place. Some textures we find pleasing, say a cat’s fur. Texture is formed by contrast and tonality changes on the small scale, then repeated to create texture. For instance, lets say I was shooting a portrait of Dolly Parton…but I digress, lets move on. The viewer recognizes the element and it pushes an emotional button. Form, or shape if you prefer to call it that, works well when you have a large/predominant composition element in your photo. The classic form of Devil’s Tower anchors this composition. So you are already programmed to see those important aspects of B&W pics – form, texture, lines and contrast. But go into a dark room or out at night and then your “rod” photoreceptors take over – they are more sensitive in low light and primarily recognize contrast, shape and movement. In bright light the “cone” photoreceptors in your eye register color information.
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