Tuesday 25 May 2010

Positioning the Horizon

Visited Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk for these shots as it provided the right settings for the exercise.


In the first shot I placed the horizon close to the centre of the image. The sky is bland and offers very little to the overall image. The foreground does provide some interest and the central placing of the horizon is aided by the tree line on the right that stops the image being of two halves.


In this second image the horizon is placed roughly one-third above the base. This placing makes the sky dominant and, as already stated, as the sky offers very little of interest the overall impact is bland and uninteresting.


In this image the horizon has been placed in the upper third of the picture. This has the advantage of taking the sky out of the equation that reduces its impact. At the same time the foreshore now dominates adding more interest.

Other placings of the horizon demonstrated that in this image the greater proportion devoted to the sky the less interesting the picture became. However placing the horizon so that there was very little if any of the sky created an image that was difficult to interpret.

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