Ugh, picture arrangements; am I right? | Blog Post #17

A plan is great and all but do you know what's more important? Budgeting? Film location? Practice? Wrong. It's composition. Now I'm not saying that the others aren't important but I'm saying that all of your efforts in your other categories are all put to shame if you can't compose your image right. I am not trying to be correct on which is most important and if your looking to make a war in my comments on the blog about which is the most important, then I urge you to stop looking at this blog right by this period. SO! with that out of the way I decided to practice my composition with these 4 takes!

Here we have l'enfant endormi. That's French for the sleeping child. In this picture, we demonstrate composition by showing the subject face down in a book. The sprawled nature of the arms suggests that he's tired and not in full control, further adding to his sleepy nature. Another hint as to why we can tell he is sleepy is by the title... Additionally, intense studying may be the reason he has fallen asleep as shown by the grasp on the pencil. The rest of the environment surrounding the subject is of large blank spaces to draw attention to the main figure. This aerial shot helps give a general idea of the environment surrounding the child.

In contrast to the landscape shot above, this one is a portrait. Carefully taken a picture with the idea of perspective in mind. I took this picture 2 years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. The rule of thirds allows your eye to be drawn to the cloth wrapping the wooden pole as well as a portion of the villa. This point-of-view shot allows you to see the setting and location as if you're standing there yourself.

In this image, we have a returning actor! As you may have noticed it's the sleeping child back to stare at the falling sun. This landscape shot helps give a very good idea of the surroundings. It is so gracefully revealed that it's a beach. This image demonstrates composition by showing the shadow of the actor which stands as an outlier of darkness to the rest of the image. Additionally, the smaller size of the shadow in this long shot further emphasizes the size of everything in the shot.

Last but not least, our final piece of composition. In this image, we use a macro-shot which is so cleverly taken just 3 centimeters away from the subject! This landscape-taken shot allows us to see a large portion of where light reflects. The grapes and strawberries show gleams of light on their right sides which suggests that the natural light is coming from the right. additionally, we have small fillers in the background with almonds and cashews. We have small glimpses of silver by the forks also help naturally tell you where the light comes from. Composition doesn't have to be a small amount of objects specifically positioned, it can also be many different objects composed as fillers with key objects to showcase the desired intention of an image.

So many lessons were taken away from these 4 composed images. As a matter of fact, I have thought up a joke. Ready?! Why did the photographer break up with the camera? There was no shutter chance for a positive exposure, and their relationship lacked the right focus – it was time to develop a new composition! What? No? Not funny? Tough crowd... Welp that marks the end of this post! I'll be back shortly with another update! And my final message to my lovely audience: Make sure to stay composed! 😉