The purpose this is to teach the photographer to frame the image in a conscious and objective manner.
I photographed 8 frames of the brighton pier with a 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 nikon lens. But i'm gonna use only six frames for the purposes of this project.
I shot the first frame at 70mm with the settings at f/11 and 1/160sec.
The frame looks unbalanced as the subjects on the frame don't connect. There is a lot of empty space .
The second frame was shot again at 70mm with the aperture and shutter at f/11 and 1/160sec.
The picture is unbalanced there is still a lot of empty space on the ocean. The foreground is not interesting and connection in between foreground and the background is broken.
The following picture was taken again at 70mm f/11 with the shutter at 1/160sec.
It is a balanced picture with three plans: the beach in the foreground, the pier on the middle and the clouds on the background. although the transition from one plan to another is not indicated by any visual clues. the viewer seems to accept this and move the eyes through the frame without effort .
This is my favourite photograph of the set.
This photograph was shot at 70mm, f/11 at 1/160sec.
The picture is not very interesting and the eye is somehow static on the pier as there is nothing more interesting to see.
The next frame was taken at 70mm, f/11 at 1/180sec.
the frame is very empty and there is only one ground: the middle ground. there is no movement in the picture and the eye stops on the pier. the white cloud on the right is of interest as well but it is too small and out of frame to make any impact.
This frame is unbalanced and the attention is static on the pier as the sky is featureless. positioning the horizon at the bottom of the frame as the effect of releasing space and providing a sense of emptiness but these were not well achieved here as the sky is uninteresting.
