PHOTOGRAPHY -26
SOME CRITICAL COMPONENTS IN IMAGE FORMULATION
Minds may wonder as to why I use ‘image
formuation’ instead of image formation. Well, images are products of objects
present in a place or scene. No one can maka a new object except by adding a
few items like a chair or bicycle or a doll or some such elements to fortify
the spirit of presenting a picture. On the contrary, a good presenter can
choose to highlight or subdue some elements to enhance the ‘theme’ .
Such deliberate shift in values of objects
in a scene together constitutes ‘formulation’. So, most items are preexisting
and the photographer chooses to place intimate importance to select objects or
features in a picture. Presenting an idea through one’s perception is
technicallu spoken of as ‘COMPOSITION’. Composition adds to a sense of ‘life’
in a picture.
Imagine that a picture is made of a
village street in a misty dawn. A worker has different options to go by. [S]He
can take pictures through hazy street light murked by falling snow , while presenting
the street light as an interior element under the mist cover , with the street empty
or with a dog coiled up into mass
suggestring the biting cold. Without fielding the lamp or the bundled up dog,
another mind may choose to wait till early Sun rise and make a picture of tell tale significance.
This time, the picture carries life
of early morning with SUN RAYS piercing through foliage of trees as long beams stretching between heaven and
earth, teempty sreet , a shivering man crouching on the edge of the street baling
out a column of smoke , internally warming ‘him’up. Someone sweeping the mud floor
in front of house raises up a cloud of dust that tells up ‘life started’ for
the day. Now the picture is made before the dust settles if a candid
presentation is the aspired effect.
Harmony The arrangement of right elements in a picture fame, bring off harmony . A car or a train in the above scene would render disharmony and disaster uninvited. On the contrary a man dragging his goat by a long stretch of rope may add another dimension of ‘life’ to the village scene.
Another
useful technique for picture-making is the principle of ‘LEADING LINES’ TO HELP our effort.
More to follow
K.
Raman
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