Cee’s CCY Challenge is about guiding the viewer to see your image the way you want them to..
Essay
Guide the Viewer
As a photographer, we have the option of guiding your viewer to see the photo as you want it to be seen. In some ways that is what composition it all about. We have already covered leading lines and lines in general. Here are three more tips which will help you.
- Bright Spot
- “S” Curve
- To Flip or Not To Flip the Horizon
In the photo below, I have created a bright spot in the water … and the natural white spot is the cliff-face. This photograph has all three of the elements, with the S being the curves of the rocks and with the image being flipped to guide your eye to cliff-face.
You can see the curve more in the black and white version of the photograph…
In this photograph I have flipped the bird so that you look more at his beak and face than you do at his tail feathers.
A photograph I did earlier this week also has two of the elements required above… it has the curves of the trees as they surround the bright area in the distance.
This image I have flipped so that your eye is focussed more on the rings and light rather than the wires
Again thank you Cee for running this challenge..
Such a great examples you have given us for this lesson. Thanks Bren for sharing and playing along.
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Thank you Cee… these challenges are brilliant… I had really realised that about the way your vision directs you until I read your post last night… and now I am looking for it in all my work now..
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Congratulations!! I have granted this post to be a GOLD STAR WINNER for my Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge.
https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/mobile-photo-challenge-bnw-and-flower-of-the-day/
I really enjoyed your entry last month. I hope your have a fabulous week.
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Thank you Cee.. I feel really honoured… Have a fabulous Week… the photograph you picked is one of my favourites too xx
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Great photos!
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Thank you very much xx
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Wow, Bren. I would not describe you as an amateur photographer. That golden landscape through the trees is incredible… as are all of your photos, but that first view in Cee’s blog of the landscape I just described makes it impossible to go on without viewing your blog. Once there, not one photograph disappointed. Stunning.
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Thank you for your lovely comment it is greatly appreciated.. I still have hell of a lot to learn believe me 😀 😀 and your comment has given me great encouragement… thank you so much.
I don’t know about you, but I just love processing photographs.. I could spend hours and hours in Lightroom and Photoshop, just doing various styles and seeing what I like… and trying new techniques… I think post-processing is the part I really enjoy especially when I am out there freezing and in the rain. 😀 😀
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Wow! These are stunning, and definitely worthy of Cee’s Goldstar award. 🏅
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Thank you very much xx
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Great photos, Bren!
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Thank you very much xx
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