Composition & Light

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composition & light

Aspect Ratio

Avant-garde photographers generally were not much interested in landscape, a genre associated with pastoral and sublime notions. Rodchenko characteristically found the natural setting of his country house accidental and unorganized: "A bush here, a tree there, a gully, nettles." There seemed nothing to make a photograph from, he wrote, until he looked up to see the trees towering above him "like telephone poles." His raking shot from below proposes vertigo instead of a sylvan calm, a dynamic alternative to the traditional horizons of the landscape view.

Director of the Bauhaus typography and advertising workshop, Herbert Bayer took up the camera about 1925, initially using photography in relation to his design work and later pursuing it for its own sake. In 1928, he traveled to Marseille, where he photographed the boats docked in the harbor from overhead, exploiting the camera's capacity to transform everyday reality into patterned abstractions.

White Balance

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

Note how 5000 K produces roughly neutral light, whereas 3000 K and 9000 K produce light spectrums which shift to contain more

orange and blue wavelengths, respectively. As the color temperature rises, the color distribution becomes cooler. This may

not seem intuitive, but results from the fact that shorter wavelengths contain light of higher energy.

Auto white balance Custom white balance

Light as form

Frame dynamics

frame in frame

active space

rule of thirds/not rule of thirds

focal point