Balance
- To some degree, every photograph in existence has elements of both balance and imbalance.
- A perfectly balanced photo means that the left and right halves of the photo draw the eye equally.
- The left-right division is the only one which really matters, top-bottom balance has little effect on how evenly-weighted an image appears.
- The most obvious type of balance is symmetry,where the image is identical on the left and right halves.
- Another type of balance is asymmetrical balance. This happens when each half of the photo has a subject that attracts equal attraction.
- To know how to balance a photo, you need to know what attracts viewer's eyes in a photo.
- Areas of contrast
- Items that are in focus(especially if most of the photo is not
- Bright spots
- Saturated items
- Warm(red/yellow) colours
- Large items
- People and (to a lesser extent) animals
- The eyes of your subject
- The direction that your subject is looking.(Even if it is an empty space, it gains visual weight because viewers will want to look the same direction as the subject.
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