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Cardamine de près - Coucou - Pervenches

Lighting: Harsh

DOF: Small

This was a hard composition b/c following the rule of thirds with regard to the horizon did not leave the foreground, middle, and background in good balance. I actually roughly used the thirds diagonally, framing the predominant, black foreground as about 40% of the image, and letting the rest take care of itself. I could have tilted the camera up and included more sky, balancing everything a little better, maybe. The sky, though, drastically lost appeal above what is shown here. I know this is a big caption, but sometimes a would-be, easy shot can be really difficult. I should show the whole scene and this side by side to show what I mean. It's funny to analyze a photo that really isn't that spectacular, but any shot has many options.

some of the pages I did for the journal swap......these are the artsy ones I put in the book.. I borrowed some page ideas from different site sI ran across

The composition rules used to make this image more attractive and interesting is the "The Rule of Thirds".

I purposely edited the image so the bird is in the right bottom corner of the picture.

Also I tried to crop every other element that in my opinion was distractive. I left my main and only focal point on its own in the picture so the viewer doesn't get distracted with anything else.

Ian MacLeod ::

36” x 36” - Acrylic, latex, deck stain, varathane & paper on canvas.

A study in composition.

Nikon FM-2

55mm Micro-Nikkor

Ilford HP5 Plus (Iso 400)

Multi-Exposure

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