Monday, January 31, 2011

Horizon One


Horizon One is the first picture that we worked on in class. This picture is apart of the composition section that we are covering. Individually we took this image and were asked to make a focal point, or crop the image so it had some sense of placement and purpose. This image was difficult to work with; the image lacked symmetry and was not balanced from where it was taken, throwing off the lines and overall view of the picture.



I decided to crop out the cars on the far left and a large portion of the skyline. By doing this I feel as though the image now had the road as the focal point, perhaps the orange sign to the right or ever the car straight ahead depending on the viewer. I don't think this is the best crop job I have ever done but I do think by cropping out what I did, it gave more structure and a more "pleasing to the eye" look.
As talked about in class and through Krause's readings I have begun to understand that sometimes less is more. As Krause said, "the point of design is to encourage and facilitate communication between the viewer and the media being viewed. Effective design initiates this connection by attracting and holding the attention of the viewer through aesthetically satisfying and conceptually intriguing content."(P 16) In this case, there was too much going on in the picture to have a point of design. Though it was off alignment, cropping out the distractions and skyline gave the picture what it lacked and even if there was not one specific point after the cropping there was more of a connection between the viewer than there was before.

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