This next exercise was to position the object at different positions in the frame. it is quite obvious that where the object sits in a frame affects how the human eye views it.
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| Fig 1: Centered |
I took a picture of my son against a row of stadium seats with him centered in the frame
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| Fig 2: Left of the frame. |
This shot above was taken with the young man in the left of the frame. I figured the rule of thirds will work here to show the background having a central mass with the eyes moving across to the row of empty green seats. This shot portrays some sense of vacancy in the empty row of seats. Some offcenteredness becomes desirable in order to set up a relationship between the subject and its background. (Freeman 2007)
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| Fig 3: Right Centered |
The image in Fig 3 is right centered. As soon as you allow free space around the subject, its position becomes an issue. It has to be placed consciously, somewhere within the frame. Logically, it might seem that the natural position is right in the middle with equal space around . And indeed there are many occasions when this holds true.(Freeman 2007).
But i find that positioning the subject to the side of the frame tends to relay information about adjoining areas and what could generally be happening. For example, this is an empty stadium. On a day when it is fully in house, those empty seats there would be full of people. This picture at least suggests that there is no one seated around the vicinity. I used a telephoto lens (70-300mm) and this has impacted on my inability to capture the whole area. A wide angle lens would have been more appropriate.
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| Fig 4:Lower Centered |
The image above Fig 4 was taken with the subject centered in the lower part of the frame. This as can be seen has added another subject to the image which is the sky and the pole. This has made the picture busier to the eye.
LESSONS LEARNT: The way the subject is framed in a picture affects the appeal of the picture to the eye.
