Thursday, April 12, 2012

Making a Sense of Balance in Photography

By Roy Barker


How often have you caught photographs with a powerful point of interest on one side and nothing but a pointless void on the other? How does one think the viewers would feel about poor photography techniques like that? Of course, such images create unbalanced and not interesting photos that will obviously fail to inspire its spectators.

So , how do you go about this problem? How do you create images with such a powerful visible impact? Well, one excellent method to achieve this target is to create a sense of balance in each of your photographs.

Understanding Balance in Photography

While putting your main subject off to one side of your frame will help you come up with pictures that pack in a large amount of visible appeal, you should not forget to balance it with an object of smaller seriousness on the other side of the frame.

There are three sorts of balance in photography: formal balance, ad-hoc balance and radial balance. While formal or symmetrical balance calls for repeating one or more identical or similar objects on either side of the frame, ad-hoc or asymmetrical balance cleverly uses dissimilar subjects to balance each other. Radial balance, from a different perspective, is attained when the design elements seem to radiate from within the center of a circular pattern. Obviously, using ad-hoc balance is more artistically challenging nevertheless it creates a much more interesting image.

The best way to Achieve Balance in Your Photographs

Albeit, creating a sense of balance is simpler to say than to do but continuing practice can markedly help you in reaching your objective. To capture more balanced pictures, these are some proposals that you might find useful:

- Balance the colors in your image. You can balance larger areas of muted or more neutral colours by incorporating tiny areas of vibrant colours.
- Balance light against dark. If you are balancing white against grey, you'll definitely need plenty of gray areas to reach the perfect balance.
- Balance the elements by employing size, texture and shape to your benefit. You can balance a larger part (generally your main topic of interest) with some smaller elements on the other side of the frame. You can make a more interesting image by incorporating intricate and irregularly formed elements or elements with uniquely engaging textures in photographs controlled with enormous flat areas.

By following these recommendations and with continuous practice, you can be certain that you're going to finally find out how to capture interesting photographs with each click. Hence keep at it and revel in the results!




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