Project 18: Relationship between points

This project had the brief to take photos without preconceptions of naturally occurring pairs of points. I have taken 'points' quite loosely in these photos. They also needed to be widely spaced in the frame.

Photo 1: More lambs! This time two in the bottom LH corner and another pair disappearing out the top RH corner. The eye is drawn to look at one pair and then the other. The placement of each point is quite extreme in the frame and does result in a large blank area in-between. Had I had more time I might have decreased this a bit, but as they were running away from us (we were behind a fence) I had little time! I didn't want to include the mother with the RH pair which is why it is cropped so close there. The front pair is the more dominant, mostly because of their larger size in the frame, but also because they are closer to the 'front' of the photo. Here the implied line is strongly diagonal across the photo, and the direction towards the lower left.

67mm, f/8, 1/125sec, ISO200

Photo 2: A tower and a tree. The tree is right on the edge of the frame, but has some 'bulk' to it, which makes it a strong point. The tower is about a quarter from the RH edge, and is a strong, vertical, solid mass. It probably has slightly stronger pull of attention, partly because it is closer to the centre, but also because of its solidity. The implied line is looser here (as the points are less point-like), but is from the centre of the tree to the centre of the tower roughly. The movement direction is not so clear as the first photo.

34mm, f/11, 1/20sec, ISO100

Photo 3: The other task for this project was a close up of a face just zooming in on the eyes, to look for tension that is unresolved in a photo of two points. I'm not really sure this works or not in this photo? I will be interested to look for other (less posed) examples of this tension from now on. The implied line is horizontal, and the movement is bi-directional.

70mm (cropped in later), f/8, 1/125, ISO200