Positioning a Point

For this excercise i had to capture three images that had a very plain background with a single point positioned on top as the subject. I had to place thise point within the frame to improve composition and choose why i use this specific position.


In this image the point is the birdhouse, or more specifically the hole in the front. The straight lines of the brickwork seemed to suggest that the house needed to be in the center so that the image felt balanced. The eye seems to read from left to right and settle on the subject.


In this amage of a daisy on a background of grass the subject was placed slightly higher in the frame and closer to the center. This keeps it from being to close to the edge and therefore not an obvious subject and allows the viewer to read from the left to right and settle on the flower.


This shot of a jar of nails is a little bit different. Because i chose to shoot it in a vertical format and because of the black line from the bottom left leading in i decided to place the 'point' in the top right corner. for me this composition works.

Althought these are very basic images and very boring subjects i think the use of composition to emphasise a 'point' is a useful tool for future work.