Thursday, 6 August 2009

Project 16 - defining a point

We are asked in this project to consider situations which would constitute a clear photograph of a 'point', this being defined as a subject which is small in the frame and which contrasts, in some way, with its surroundings.

I came up with the following list of possible situations:

- a boat or other object (e.g. a buoy) on water

- subject of contrasting colour in a field/landscape

- animal/bird/insect against foliage/grass

- a light source in a darkened room

- bird/plane/kite/hot-air balloon against a blue sky

- climber against a rock face

- centre of a flower with contrasting colour to its petals

- fruit/flower on a bush

- brightly dressed person crossing against a plain background

- a colourful umbrella in the rain

- patch of sunlight on the ground under foliage

- sunset/sunrise

- the Moon
- brightly coloured tent in a field


I have looked through my library of photographs for some examples and have found a few but not as many as I expected, perhaps because I haven't tried to capture such compositions in the past. Those which I did found were isolated figures/vehicles in a plain landscape, insects/birds on a background of leaves or flowers, examples of which are shown below -

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