Pictures from a cheapy digital camera I bought for $8.88
Last month I posted a photograph of rosy sedum just starting to change color. Here’s that same plant fully colored. This is a photograph of angles. The stems grow upward at an angle. The flowers sit at an angle. The intersecting diagonal lines have a meeting place for your eye to rest. I find it also makes the photograph more dynamic and interesting.
Here are some yellow lilies I found. One bloom at the front and at least one bud waiting to bloom behind it. It’s the same type of flower as a previous photograph, but it’s at a different location. I think this one has a better camera angle to show off the flower.
Here I used the rule of thirds. The main bloom is about 1/3 into the frame from the right. It makes for a good composition which also allows me to show some of the surroundings of the flowers. You can see the long, slender, curving leaves from the lily.
In addition, a second lily in the background. This second background lily adds a point for your eye to fall upon. This will help to keep your eye in the picture as your eye generally will tend to jump between the flower in the central area of the photograph and the flower in the background. It also fills the background a little.
Here are some of the larges flowers I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what kind they are.
The flowers are in the lower third of the photograph, keeping to the rule of thirds. The vertical post on the left, the vertical downspout on the right and the eves trough above all help to contain your eye on the photograph. Since they are in the background they tend to do it in an unobtrusive manner.
Here is a cute, small garden. Mainly made up of red flowers, but there is a splash of pink in the middle to help draw the eye.
The garden comes to a point at the bottom left of the photograph. It tends to be a triangular shape. Geometric shapes can be used to make an image more stable. Meaning so your eye doesn’t leave on the edge of the image and so your eye doesn’t dance around the image randomly. Also, the leading edge of the garden is on a diagonal in the image, adding a dynamic quality to the image that also helps guide the eye across the image.
I found some nice flowers at the base of a tree. The main subject is offset slightly from the center. This can keep the picture relatively dynamic. The photograph is mainly balanced. That is, flowers on each side of the tree have about the same visual weight. There are no objects in the foreground to draw your eye more to one side of the tree than the other.
