When the place is the principal subject, but when it will look better inhabited, it is often useful to find ways of reducing the visual attention that a person or a face tends to command. Among the most common ways of achieving this while shooting are the following:
Small and many - a crowd of people naturally have a certain dominance because of their numbers, but individually they command less attention.
Facing away - the human face is such a powerful visual attractant that simple photographing someone from behind or with their head turned away from the camera alters their relationship to the rest of the image
In silhouette - shooting from darkness towards a bright background, communicates 'person' but rarely 'personality'
Partly obscured - figures and faces even partly hidden behind some other object are automatically reduced in visual importance
Motion blur - useful technique using a tripod and if the light is sufficiently dim to use a slow exposure.
No comments:
Post a Comment