Friday, September 4, 2009

Compositional Trick #4 Simplicity




Having simplicity in a photo is great for strengthening the composition by only having one main object so your eyes go directly towards the emphasis. Simplicity does not mean boring, it simply means not having other things going on in your picture so that the focus is on one main thing. Although the picture of my cactus shows simplicity it is also boring therefore not being a very good example.
Simplicity can be an effective trick when wishing to direct the attention upon a particular object with no other distractions around. The picture of the rabbit is a good example of this because I only wanted a picture of it, so while it was in a corner I croped in enough so that the picture is only showing the rabbit.

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