Friday, April 13, 2012

Making a Sense of Balance in Photography

By Roy Barker


How frequently have you captured images with a robust point of interest on one side and nothing apart from a worthless void on the other? How do you believe the spectators would feel about poor photography techniques like that? Needless to say, such photographs create unbalanced and hardly interesting stills that may clearly fail to impress its viewers.

Hence how does one go about doing this problem? How does one create photographs with such a robust visual impact? Well, one great way to achieve this aim is to make a sense of balance in each of your images.

Understanding Balance in Photography

While putting your principal subject off to the side of your frame can help you come up with photographs that pack in a lot of visual appeal, you should never forget to balance it with a subject of lesser importance on the opposite side of the frame.

There are 3 types of balance in photography: formal balance, casual balance and radial balance. While formal or symmetrical balance calls for repeating one or two matching or similar objects on both sides of the frame, ad hoc or asymmetrical balance creatively uses dissimilar subjects to balance one another. Radial balance, from the other perspective, is achieved when the design elements appear to radiate from inside the centre of a circular pattern. Of course, using ad hoc balance is more artistically challenging but it creates a far more fascinating image.

The best way to Achieve Balance in Your Photographs

Albeit, creating a sense of balance is simpler to say than to do but continuing practice can markedly help you in reaching your objective. To capture more balanced pictures, these are some proposals that you might find useful:

- Balance the colors in your image. You can balance larger areas of muted or more neutral colours by incorporating tiny areas of vibrant colours.
- Balance light against dark. If you are balancing white against grey, you'll definitely need plenty of gray areas to reach the perfect balance.
- Balance the elements by employing size, texture and shape to your benefit. You can balance a larger part (generally your main topic of interest) with some smaller elements on the other side of the frame. You can make a more interesting image by incorporating intricate and irregularly formed elements or elements with uniquely engaging textures in photographs controlled with enormous flat areas.

By following these suggestions and with constant practice, you can be sure that you'll eventually learn the way to capture engaging photos with every click. Therefore keep at it and enjoy the results!




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