Points (2.1b) - relationship between points

Requirement
3 photographs


Purpose
To show how 2 points create a relationship between each other as well as introduce energy into the image


Technical learning

• As with a single point in a frame, a relationship exists bewteen the point(s) and the frame. However, a relationship is also exists between the 2 points themselves.
• The eye is drawn to one and then the other
• This sets up (a) an implied line and direction within the image as well as (b) a vaguely defined space around them
• One of the points usually attracts more attention than the other, where it is (a) bigger, (b) nearer to the foreground or (c) closer to the centre
• Sometimes both points attract equal attention, i.e. where they are the same size, symmetrical to the centre, the same distance from the camera
• Unresolved tension can energise an image, although taken to extremes this can damage the composition.

Project and images

Identify a situaton with 2 points. 

• Produce an image where the points are equal in the frame
• Produce another image where one dominates by size
• Produce a third where one dominates by colour

In the last two photos, identify the point which is stronger and why.


Building site in West End, London

2 points of the same size

Close-up of a hoarding advertsing the construction of an office block, Holborn, London

The bottom point dominates as it occupies
more of the frame 

2 climbers on a rock face

The lower climber attracts the eye slightly more
than his partner because of the
warmer colour of his clothing, red shirt vs
blue one. If, for example,
his back pack would have been yellow, he would
draw the eye even more strongly.