How to balance the picture in photography

Balance is a psychological requirement and sense of form formed by people in their long-term life. Whether the picture is balanced in photography not only affects the overall structure of the photographic picture, but also is closely related to the audience's appreciation psychology. Therefore, the overall balance of the picture in photography is very important. This article is how to balance the pictures in my carefully edited photographs, and I hope it will help you!

How does photography balance the picture? 1. The role of picture balance

1, solemn. The balance of the picture is stable, and the symmetrical balance is deliberately adopted, showing a solemn relationship.

2. Elegant, quiet and gentle. The picture is lively, and the changing balance makes the picture dense, virtual and real, showing the beauty of the picture from the overall balance.

3. Deliberately violate the law of balance, so that the picture appears deliberate arrangement in unbalanced balance. Express the theme in an unbalanced way.

Second, correctly understand the picture balance

2. 1 The equilibrium is unstable.

If the picture is too steady, it will be slightly childish, so the above works need more consideration, especially in the choice of framing range. However, the following picture does not adopt a slow and steady method, but achieves a balance with the whole picture.

The scenery in front of us is so perfect that we often want everything when shooting, and everything has to be shown in the picture. At such a moment, in fact, we need to be calm and consider the damage to the photographic picture instantly. There are many such damages: light, tone, color, modeling, picture composition, contrast atmosphere, expression of emotions and so on. So we should consider the difference between creation and recording.

At the same time, we know that the choice of light composition, shooting angle and framing range in a photographic picture will affect the overall balance of the picture and the photographer's creative intention, so we should think more about reducing the composition that is too stable.

2.2 Equilibrium is not equal to average

Balance is one of the basic principles of photographic composition, and it is a factor that produces a sense of stability. In photographic composition, balance is not equal to average, and absolute symmetry is taboo, which will make the picture dull and only produce a mechanical unnatural feeling. And if the picture is light while heavy, it will feel uncomfortable and the composition will be unbalanced.

The above picture is taken along the semi-axis of the center of the picture, and the picture maintains an absolute balance relationship. In the post-processing, the intentional photographer has done a taboo job in the form of composition, and the area under the mountain in the distance has formed an equal area relationship with the sky, which makes the picture look uncomfortable and the organizational ability of composition abrupt, which will affect the interest of the picture. At the same time, the echo relationship between the sky and the ground will be buried in the heavy vision of the ground.

2.3 Equilibrium is only left and right, or up and down.

At the moment of picture composition, we often pay more attention to the picture balance relationship between the upper and lower organizational structures, but the picture balance can not be ignored. The requirements of photographic works are not limited to one point, but the whole picture.

The works in the above picture basically reflect the beautiful world in front of us in a balanced way, giving people a sense of peace and stability, but they are not absolutely symmetrical and dull. If you enlarge the area below the picture when shooting this work, the overall structure and visual readability of the picture will be enhanced a lot. And the picture below just reaches the balance of up, down, left and right.

2.4 Equilibrium is not absolutely symmetrical

When it comes to picture balance, it is different from symmetry, because this composition form is not a one-to-one correspondence between the shape, quantity, size and arrangement of the left and right scenery, but a different arrangement with the same or similar shape, quantity and size, which gives people visual stability. Absolute symmetry sometimes gives people a monotonous and static feeling. Therefore, in many parts of the picture, photographers should consciously break this static feeling, seek the attraction of the picture, and seek the dynamic balance of the picture in the change. These contrasts, such as size, density, virtual reality and contrast between light and shade, are full of aesthetic feeling.

The distant light point on the right gives people strength and upward hope. At the same time, my eyes flew to the distance again and again with all the lines in the picture. Although there is a storm on the edge of the haze, I still see hope. Perhaps what attracts me most is the dynamic balance of the picture. In many parts of the picture, the photographer should consciously break this static feeling when composing the picture, seek the attraction of the picture in the change and seek the dynamic balance of the picture. If you carefully consider the relationship between light and shade on the right, the quality will be higher. The figure below deliberately uses irregularities to break the rigid balance.

Third, the rational use of picture balance

3. 1 Learn to choose picture balance.

When it comes to the picture balance of a work, we must first learn to choose, which depends on the artistic effect, the right position and the number. At the same time, small objects can be balanced by large objects, distant objects can also be balanced by close objects, moving objects can also be balanced by static objects, and low scenes can also be balanced by high scenes. The effect is related to the author's aesthetic ability and artistic quality. Practice and study more, and you will certainly master this composition form and make good use of this artistic skill.

Although there are many still lives in the works on the left, they are well balanced, and the instantaneous exposure of the works may be more perfect. However, too many elements in the picture can easily lead to clutter, while the picture with simple elements is more attractive.

3.2 Break the rigid situation with balance.

In photographic composition, excessive balance will give people a static, stiff and monotonous feeling, but people's aesthetic requirement in life is still to pursue balance. Too much use of balance and symmetry will make people feel dull and lack of vitality.

And balance is to break the rigid situation, which is both "equal" and flexible. Structural balance means that the scenery of each part of the picture should echo and contrast to achieve balance and stability.

The main body of the left picture is too centered, and the picture is a bit dull. The solution to this problem is to re-examine the proportion of heaven and earth. One side of the picture is definitely more exciting, making the wonderful part as the visual focus of the picture more vivid.

3.3 Use balance to create artistic conception

Artistic conception has always occupied a very important position in natural scenery photography. If the work is artistic, the author must go deep into life, be familiar with life and learn to observe. Such a work will surely make us appreciate it seriously. It is really rare to observe, pay attention to, imagine and shoot such works in a familiar environment.

While observing and shooting, we should pay more attention to the composition of photography, so that such works have more imagination space, artistic conception and remolding of images, meet the pleasing needs, maintain harmony between images, seek simplicity in change, seek pleasure in change and seek gentleness in beauty.