Lots of Portulaca
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Here’s my favorite flower, portulaca. I filled the frame with flowers as much as possible to get as many flowers as I could and have each flower a reasonable size.
Archive for the ‘flowers’ Category
Pink Spiers
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Here’s some pink flowers I found. Some blooming, some not. The vertical blooms rise at different angles leading your eye around the photograph. Also, the bottom two blooms form a v shape if you were to draw two intersecting lines along their length. This v shape is a geometric shape giving the photograph a stable appearance.
Garden with Stone Wall
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The stone wall adds what could be called a texture to the bottom of the photograph. The flowers: two clumps of marigolds at the lower left; the purple flowers at the upper left and the rosy sedum at the upper right form a square. Ok, maybe a distorted square. It’s still a regular geometric shape giving stability to the photograph. Your eye tends to jump from one to another staying inside the image.
Lily Pads and Flowers
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Here are some lily pads in the pond from yesterday. If you look very closely, you can see two white flowers near the middle of the cluster of lily pads.
The cluster of lily pads are shaped irregularly. However, there is still some balance in the photograph. For example, notice how the lily pads touch the edge of the photograph at the bottom left and the middle right. This leaves somewhat of an open area in the lower right of the image. This helps to balance the photograph by putting some of the lily pads at the lower left, but leaving the lower right somewhat open.
It distributes the visual weight around the photograph. Everything in real life has weight. We know this. By the same token, objects in our photographs tend to have a visual weight. We know if it’s heavy or not in real life. That sense of weight gets transferred into our photographs. The lily pads are somewhat balanced between the left and right side of the photograph because of the placement of relatively open space.
Pink & Blue Flowers on a Fence
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Here’s some pink and blue flowers on a fence. The leaves cover the fence, adding a natural look to the photograph. The three main flowers form a triangular shape, giving the photograph some organization. The bloom in the lower left helps provide a barrier to your eye leaving the edge of the image. Also, the fact that it is a dull blue and doesn’t face the camera reduces the amount that it draws the eye toward it.
