More Interesting —— Reading The Secret of Structure 2

This is the study notes of Chapter 2 "Making the Works More Interesting" in The Secrets of Composition. The interest of this chapter is still based on the principle of "rejecting similarity and creating differences".

Almost all average segmentation will make the picture look dull, such as diagonal segmentation. Although the images in the two triangles after segmentation are different, the two triangles are equal, so the picture still looks dull. If you divide the picture irregularly, you can make it look more interesting.

The "proximity" between an object and an image determines whether an object gives people an interesting feeling. The more irregular the interval, the more changeable the interval, and the more interesting the picture.

For example, a row of pine trees is dense and highly dispersed, which is naturally interesting, but the average distribution is boring.

Generally speaking, complex figures are more interesting than simple figures, non-equilateral figures are more interesting than equilateral figures, oblique figures are more interesting than figures parallel to the boundary, and concave-convex figures are more interesting than figures with only convex shapes.

When describing groups of similar objects, the intervals are staggered and the heights are distinguished to increase the interest. In addition, odd objects are usually more interesting than even objects, and triangles are more interesting than squares.

Interestingly, regarding the number of objects, Qin Datang's photography aesthetics thinks that it can't be a single object, which means that a group of objects should preferably come from here in groups of 3, 5 and 7 ...?

From this perspective, aesthetics and psychology are closely related. Adding interest is actually to make the picture get more attention from the audience. This also means that the content of the picture must be unusual to convince the stingy brain.