I have been thinking about writing my views on composition. Of late my commute time to office has exponentially increased! This gave me some time to crystalize some of my thoughts during these long journeys. I got up early on Saturday to give these thoughts a shape in the form of an article. Here is the link to the article.
As always your thoughts are welcome.
- Ganesh H Shankar (Nature Lyrics)
5 comments:
Jsut thought of posting our discussion here. Might be helpful for others.
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Nice Article Ganesh. Here I have few thoughts :
1) In one of the posts, I remember you mentioning that "there are not rules" when I had asked about Rule of thirds and here in this instance you speak about the same, am I missing something?
2) Secondly, just a suggestion is that as you speak about light and space - there is a mention of them but not in detail and you say that you will get back to it in a minute. I just felt that when someone is reading it may cause a break in the "flow". It will be good if you can organize it in a way where in the flow continues. My 2 cents, hope this is not offensive for you.
Let me know your thoughts
Best regards
Pramod
Pramod,
Thanks for your views!
1. I hate rules when we follow them religiously every time. First of all the rule of thirds came from an observation about visually strong points. In my view such observations are more important than the rule. If we treat it as a rule then we constrain ourselves. That is why I don't like to know rule - for me there are no rules. But I do want know and curious about how our visual system and brain works.
2. I had in my mind to get back on those points. After the discussion on elements I tried to cover some aspect of combining light and space, eye and space etc. May be you are right - it is not very apparent. Further it is difficult to express art part of it. How does cashew nut tastes ? -Smile We know how it tastes but difficult express it in writing ! Often I think such written expressions are in-complete.
Just my views - Thanks for sharing your thoughts..
- Regards,
Ganesh.
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Hi Ganesh,
In addition to light, space and eye I have felt "colour" also adds to the image in a subtle way. One of my favorite photographs from your collection is http://indianaturewatch.net/
displayimage.php?id=5236
( sorry about the folded link )
I have seen many purple sunbird images but this one stands out in my memory because of the colourful flower setting.
Mahesh, thanks for your views. I did think about color as a compositional element but did not include it since I felt it is a form of light (light of different wave lengths). In retrospect I am not sure whether that becomes a very scientific reason to exclude it as one of the compositional element -:)
I have used 'color' as a compositional element in a lot of my photographs. I think one could achieve compositional advantages even through tonal change across the frame.
for eg., in some of my images the subject is positioned dead center. but the colors/the-edges-where-colors-change in the background/foreground take care of the rule of thirds [and maybe keep the puritans busy over if it is conformance or breaking of the rule! :-)]
nice write, ganesh! as delectable as your photos!
Thanks for your views Prabhu !
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