Balance Photogaphy
Symmetry
The Principle of Balance in still life and landscape photography means that different parts of a picture should be proportional to each other. According to it, if one of the objects on the photo is moved aside, towards the edge of the shot, another object or element of composition should appear in the shot balance tones and lines.
The Principle of Balance is the law of classical painting, but in photography it doesn’t have only a direct meaning. An object moved away from the centre can be balanced by a light spot: heavy tones can be balanced in most cases by a slight stroke, etc. When we change the form, the principle of balance doesn’t lose its main properties: comparison of parts of a picture always gives an impression of firmness.
The most balanced composition is created when all elements of an image are placed symmetrically, when the left and the right part of a shot and its top and bottom repeat each other. Symmetrical composition is wide-spread in photography.
Frontal composition
We can get frontal composition of a shot when our main subject is situated in the centre and main lines are parallel to lines of a photo frame. The photo below is an example of frontal composition.
If composition is frontal, the viewer can see the image in one dimension only, and this means that objects situated in the centre of an image are not seen in three dimensions. The main axes of all elements of an image – figures, objects, architecture situated within a frame – coincide with the axe of the whole photograph. Such a lay-out and projection of certain elements of an image may cause the loss of depth of field and prevent us from seeing objects in three dimensions. That is why most images with frontal composition looks flat.
Frontal composition gives an image a static character, calmness and firmness. These properties of frontal composition make it impossible to use it in dynamic images where you want to show movement. Frontal composition is often used in architecture photography, or if a photographer wants to shoot objects with symmetrically laid out parts, because such composition favors the depiction of these objects.
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