The brief was to take 3 photographs in which there is a single point, placed in a different part of the frame in each example. The initial set of images I took for this exercise was at the Tower of London when the ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ installation was in place consisting of ceramic poppies. The large areas of red provided a perfect background to ‘point’ photographs, however I used one of the exercise photos in my assignment so I decided to redo this exercise and had the opportunity to do this while in India The images below are of a sunset taken from a bridge. The ‘point’ or spot is obviously the sun and I will comment on the effectiveness of the placement of the ‘point’ in each of the photos below;
In this first image the ‘point’ (sun) is in the middle of the vertical plane, but to the left of the horizontal plane. The point is not in a uniformly blank background as the sky forms a contrasting section to the dark of the tree, however I think that it is substantially different in brightness to be able to be considered a ‘point’. I don’t think this image works because the point is too central in the frame.
In this image I think the point is slightly better placed, being marginally closer to the edge of the top of the photograph. I also like how there is much more of the tree in this image, giving much more emphasis on the point as it is set a plainer background, albeit that the foliage varies in brightness between the left and right sides of the frame.
In this final image, the point is placed to the far left corner and is proportionally much closer to the edge of the photograph than the other 2 images above. I think that this gives a sense of movement with the sun rapidly going down, as if it only just managed to get into the shot. Similarly the sky and tree form a more distracting background, but I like the colour in the sky and the random branches pointing northwards.
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