Balance and Imbalance.

A nice easy place to start just to get the creative juices flowing once more with this course is with a piece of work centred around the idea of Balance and Imbalance within an image. This is ground cover in a number of other courses but it's never bad to practice theses compositional skills as you never know what you might pick up for example a new way of looking at a familiar scene just by changing the composition of the subject slightly. In the first instance i looked at creating 3 balanced images (the easier part by far), to me i find creating balance in frame relatively straight forward these days but i didn't always find this so. As with everything practice over time helps build confidence in what you're trying to achieve.

In this first image i achieve balance by sandwiching the dark area of the sea between the light sky and the stone work and sun dial at the bottom. Also because all the lines in the view are relatively horizontal it helps increase this feel of balance and calm because the view doesn't seem busy and disorganised.

In my second image what I've used is the lines of the petals that draw the eye to the central focal point while also the reds and yellows being complementary colours add to this effect of balance. The symmetry of the view also helps alot.

My final balance image relies completely on the pattern/repetitive nature of the pine cone structure to produce the effect I'm looking for.

Moving onto my Imbalanced image was where i did have some small problems mainly because it isn't as easy as you first think to produce this kind of effect, you think that a bad composure is a good place to start but what i soon found is that this just isn't good enough you have to be even more creative to capture imbalance in a seen.

At first glance you take in the fact that this view seem very balanced with the diagonal lines all running in the same direction and the nice focus blur created by an f stop of about 9, but when you look closely and see that the actual focus of the shot is the Ladybird i feel it gives the shot a more of an unbalanced feel because the focus is so small against the larger background.

Here I'm relying on the wall lines which create quiet alot of disorder throughout the frame because first you have the main wall which appears to be falling away down the slop out of the frame then you have all the other wall lines in the background which run in all number of different directions producing confusion and very little pattern.

My final shot i think is the best illustration of imbalance because the two pathways create a kind of optical illusion in that your eyes feel as if there being pulled in two directions and your mind doesn't know which way its meant to look.

As I've said the first part i found quiet straight forward but the imbalanced half i found much more testing plus I'm not 100 percent happy with the end results. Possible this will be something that i can continue to work on as i move through the course but either way an enjoyable start.