Dividing the frame - Balance

This exercise shows how balance in our previous pictures was achieved by placing the main subject in the frame.

Most of our subject were placed off the centre of our photographs what made it easy to identify balance. In previous exercise we were placing object to a different positions in frame so we could see how balance or unbalance can make the picture look pleasant or unpleasant. 

In this picture, the main point of interest is the larger house on top of the frame,
where the hanging items lead our attention towards it

The balance was achieved by placing the focused area close to the side of the picture

The main object is placed little bit off the centre of frame
where the other object lead our sight towards it

This picture looks very unbalanced and unpleasant because of all the misleading objects in the picture

Main subject is placed slightly off the centre of the frame. We could place it more to the left to make it more balanced

This object was carefully placed in the middle of frame which makes it look very static and boring

Focal lengths and different view points

On this exercise we simply demonstrate how the background will change (will be compressed) when we change focal length.

Both pictures were taken from different spot but our subject to background distance did not change. For the first picture we were closer to our subject and we used wide focal length. The second picture was taken from distance by using telephoto lens. As we can see our subject is the same size in both pictures. The only thing that changed is the background. In the wide focal length picture it is less compressed than when we used telephoto. 

200 mm

17 mm

Focal lengths - variable focal lengths

Here we demonstrate how the look of picture will change by using a different focal length.

All pictures were taken by different focal length from the same spot. 

  

17 mm

55 mm

200 mm