Making of composition

“Making the composition ” by Raymon Brugman
Ok let us analyse the last photograph before we move on to dept of field.

A quite nice little flower here. You can see, as a result of not aiming with a crosshair as I said before, the flower is not centred. Why not, it’s the subject right? Yes that’s true.

Let us take a look at the edited image.

As you can see the flower, marked red, is quite a heavy mass, and its not centred at all, you would expect an unbalanced composition. But the yellow parts of this image sort of balance the image. While I didn’t centre the main subject (the flower) the composition is very balanced, and centred, this becomes clear when you look at the blue lines.
Then there’s the background, which makes the hole composition float, this is the result when using dept of field in your compositions. Dept of field creates a field of dept, sounds quite logic I guess. But when the subject of the image is not centred dept of field becomes very important to tell the viewer where to look on the image. For example take this image photo:

Without dept of field, the focus would now lie in the centre where the camera’s crosshair aims, and the subject, the thin moss hairs, would be out of focus and all attention would be drawn to the little stones in the background.

Same here:

Ok, lets move on to digital painting.
aking good compositions can be very hard for someone who is just starting to learn drawing or painting. Because you have to start from scratch. BUT it can be a great advantage when you know what you’re doing, since you can create everything you want, whether it’s a fly, or mountain, you can use it to enhance compositions you make.

There it is, you see the picture broken in elements, and what do you see? Each element of the picture is about the same size as the rest, and that’s what makes this image balanced.