What is a straight structure?

Comparison between direct composition and horizontal composition

In composition, it also involves the pattern and proportion of a painting. But no matter how the pattern of the picture changes, except for the square composition, it tends to be vertical or horizontal rectangle. Then the key is to choose between horizontal and vertical, and determine the overall pattern, so that the composition can be finally completed after a few adjustments in the later stage.

1, vertical composition

Vertical composition not only helps to express the characteristics of vertical tall things, but also reflects people's upward movement, which is related to people's pioneering ability and will. In the vertical picture, on the one hand, tall and vertical objects such as trees, buildings and towers can be represented; On the other hand, arranging some oblique objects above and below the straight painting will bring people a feeling of high and soaring in vision and psychology, and produce a lofty mood by raising their heads; If you stand on a high place and shoot down, the scenery on the ground unfolds from bottom to top, much like the vertical view of Chinese painting, which makes people open-minded.

2. Horizontal composition

Horizontal composition is related to human instinctive vision. The broad horizon spreads things horizontally in turn, and the horizontal connections at all levels can radiate to both sides comfortably, especially satisfying people's eyes of "looking around" and broadening their horizons. Banner composition is also conducive to expressing the movement trend of objects, including making still scenes have flowing rhythmic beauty. For example, Guilin's books and waters fluctuate, and high-rise buildings are scattered.

Step 3: Square composition

In the composition of photographic pictures, there are also square compositions in a stable state that are not used much. Square can meet the demand of rotating dynamic potential, and sometimes it can solve the contradiction between vertical and horizontal. At the early stage of film development, Eisenstein, a famous film expert, even suggested that the picture of the film should be square, thinking that the square can contain both horizontal width and depth, which is the most ideal picture. Interestingly, the screen of modern movies has not become a square, but a wider screen plus a wider screen, which just shows that modern aesthetic concepts need more and wider lateral psychological fields.

4. Long proportion composition

When it comes to a broader horizontal psychological field, the proportion of the ultra-long picture in modern photography is gradually increasing, especially the banner composition with a wide aspect ratio, which strengthens the diagonal advantage and is very conducive to expressing the sense of movement and deep space.

5. Writing habits

It should be noted that it is impossible for a photographer to have enough time to consider the pattern of the picture and decide the approximate aspect ratio of the picture like a painter. The painter can even remove the drawing board and put it vertically or horizontally in the process of painting. The photographer's grasp of composition is often completed in a very short moment, but you can't hesitate whether it is horizontal or vertical. In addition, the area of the negative is very limited. Once the horizontal and vertical pattern is fixed, it will not be worth the loss to change it, and it will not be worth the loss to try to cut it on a large scale in the later period. This requires photographers to have very agile processing ability in grasping horizontal and vertical composition.

The composition of photography will also be influenced by the habitual horizontal camera, including the TV and movies you usually see are horizontal, and the horizontal composition is more comfortable than the vertical composition when lifting the camera, so most people like to use the horizontal composition when taking pictures, regardless of whether there is a need for vertical composition in the picture. It's a pity that even several rolls of film have been shot, which means that none of them are composed directly. Many famous photographers take straight composition as a basic skill to strengthen the training of beginners, which is indeed reasonable.

Summary:

1, vertical composition has a sense of solemnity and is suitable for representing tall objects, also known as portrait composition mode.

2. Horizontal composition is relatively stretched and stable, also called landscape composition mode.

3, the square composition is the most stable, but it is easy to appear dull and needs strong control ability.