What does photography and nature have in common? They both have rules and sometimes they break them.
Mother Nature has so many rules it’s hard to count. Think about it. Gravity comes to mind, and so does weather patterns. For everything in nature to function in harmony there are rules to govern how things work, it’s the same thing in photography. A ball will always fall down according to nature’s rules and faces need lead room in photography. Hot air rises and setting your horizon in the center of your photographs doesn’t work. You need a seed, pollen or sperm to activate procreation, while in photography keeping your subject in one of the thirds will attract your eye to it.
Each one of these rules can and do get broken but in each case, it’s for a reason. So if you want to break a rule you need to know why and what you’re breaking.
Composition is something that can be taught and some people just have “it”. As you work with your camera you will start to see the world broken up just for you in rules…. Leading lines, thirds, lead room, odds, and more. You just need to know what you’re looking for. Im not going to go into detail now about proper composition I’ll chat about that later.
What does this have to do with getting emotions in photographs?
If these rules aren’t followed it’s harder for the viewer to read your photo and get the emotion you were trying to portray. It’s harder to roll a ball uphill then down. Putting the horizon line in the center of your photograph makes it difficult to focus on the sky or the ground because you don’t know what you should be looking at.
What about if you want to break the rules? Does this hinder getting emotion in photographs? Nope but only if you know what rule you are braking and you are doing it on purpose. The photo needs to “work”. Sometimes the emotion in your photograph is coming from what the person is looking at and you need to break the composition rules to include the entire image you want. It’s ok. If when looking at the photograph you get an emotion before you ever think about the composition then I would say it’s ok. Break the rules sparingly. Rules are there for a reason… they work!
When a photo doesn’t have good basic composition and a clear focus I think its definitely more difficult to find the emotion in the photograph.
Mother Nature has so many rules it’s hard to count. Think about it. Gravity comes to mind, and so does weather patterns. For everything in nature to function in harmony there are rules to govern how things work, it’s the same thing in photography. A ball will always fall down according to nature’s rules and faces need lead room in photography. Hot air rises and setting your horizon in the center of your photographs doesn’t work. You need a seed, pollen or sperm to activate procreation, while in photography keeping your subject in one of the thirds will attract your eye to it.
Each one of these rules can and do get broken but in each case, it’s for a reason. So if you want to break a rule you need to know why and what you’re breaking.Composition is something that can be taught and some people just have “it”. As you work with your camera you will start to see the world broken up just for you in rules…. Leading lines, thirds, lead room, odds, and more. You just need to know what you’re looking for. Im not going to go into detail now about proper composition I’ll chat about that later.
What does this have to do with getting emotions in photographs?
If these rules aren’t followed it’s harder for the viewer to read your photo and get the emotion you were trying to portray. It’s harder to roll a ball uphill then down. Putting the horizon line in the center of your photograph makes it difficult to focus on the sky or the ground because you don’t know what you should be looking at.
What about if you want to break the rules? Does this hinder getting emotion in photographs? Nope but only if you know what rule you are braking and you are doing it on purpose. The photo needs to “work”. Sometimes the emotion in your photograph is coming from what the person is looking at and you need to break the composition rules to include the entire image you want. It’s ok. If when looking at the photograph you get an emotion before you ever think about the composition then I would say it’s ok. Break the rules sparingly. Rules are there for a reason… they work!
When a photo doesn’t have good basic composition and a clear focus I think its definitely more difficult to find the emotion in the photograph.
Just my humble opinion. -KellyKay
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