Aesthetics:
The next lesson that we are beginning to learn about aesthetics and how to work a certain shot. When you work a shot you use angles to heighten the interest and look of the photo. When using aesthetics you bring a totally different look of an object simply by using different teqniques. Using aesthetics to everyday objects gives people more of an appreciation for the object. The five types of aesthetics that I am going to focus on in this blog are the rules of third, symmetry and patterns, viewpoint, framing, and lastly balancing elements.
Rules of Third:
The rules of third is meant to bring balance in a photo. Using a 3x3 guideline in your camera you can take an object and balance it with its background or with other objects in the photo. I used a window as my example on how to balance the window with the side windows located next to a larger window.
The frame of the big window is directly matched with the middle square with the 3x3 guidelines. This adds balance to the photo and making it perfectly centered in the photo.
Symmetry and Patterns:
In architecture symmetry is very often seen due to the fact that in order to build stability to a building it must be perfectly symmetric. In finding these symmetric patterns in architecture it brings an opportunity to the photographer to capture a photo more symmetric and stable to the eyes. In my example I used the frame of the windows. Each frame is measured to the exact same length away from each other. The frames also bring a symmetric feel to them with the patterns used on all of the frames.
The frames have the same vertical lines along the frames to bring a pattern to the photo.
Viewpoint:
Capturing a moment from a different point of view is how you can value a photo or image in a whole different way. We all look at life from generally the same point of view, from eye level. But if you take an object and simply change the angle of how you take a photo. Generally people will take a photo from up above or looking up since people do not generally look at life in these types of angles.
I took this photo of the window while laying down. Looking up at the window creates a different way of looking out the window due to the fact that not many people look from the ground up to a window.
Framing:
When using framing to center a photo architecture also may help more often than in nature. Using squares of the frame of the actual window is very effective and is how I used the shape to my advantage.
I used the outlining of the frame of the window to use a a frame itself. By doing this I can present the object that I am trying to capture more effectively and more pleasing to the eyes.
Balancing Elements:
Finally in balancing elements it is creative in a way to take your center object in which you are capturing and take the weird of it and compare it to something smaller. In doing this balance the two objects in a way that they look the same size. I used a Bose speaker and the window due to the size and shape of the window. Since they both had a square shape I thought that it would match up very nicely.
By focusing on the speaker it brings the attention to the speaker while at the same time make it seem that these two objects are the same weight and size.
