Requirement
6 photographs
Purpose
To show how to identify and create balance
within an image by dividing the frame
Technical learning
- Balance means equilibrium
between two or more parts of something
- It is fundamental to
composition
- It applies not just to where you position the subject but to
every kind of arrangement
- It occurs in several
dimensions: tones, colours, shapes, textures, points, lines
- You can show the visual balance
of an image by using a ‘weighting scale’, as if the elements were placed on a board with a fulcrum at its centre
- The chart shows combinations of how unequal objects can be made to balance by placing the larger ones closer to the centre and the smaller near to the
edge of the frame
- This type of symmetry, i.e. around 1 axis, creates
static balance
- Maximum symmetry occurs where
objects or lines radiate around the frame’s centre giving
- Balance does not have to be
simply between two obvious, clearly-defined objects: it can be between: for example, an
object and its background, two
different areas of tone, two
different colours
Exercise instructions
Take 6 of your own previously taken photographs. Decide how the balance works. Look
for the dominant part (or parts) of the image. Identify
them in a small rectangular sketch. Alongside
mark down the ‘weighting scale’
Images and Review
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| Symmetry - shape, tone |
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| Symmetry - tones |
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| Symmetry - new/old building, tones |
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| Symmetry - tones |
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| Maximum symmetry |
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| Maximum symmetry |
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