Learn to select the right lens and camera angle to avoid this while you still maintain a high horizon view point. One thing to avoid with high horizon lines is be careful not to distort your elements in the lower portion of your image. The idea is simple and a high horizon line brings dominance to the lower 2/3 portion of the image.
If your sky is boring, or you just want to emphasize the foreground in your image, adjust your camera angle so the horizon line rests up on the upper third of your image frame-though keep in mind, if you have a human subject as your main element do not let the horizon line chop their head at the neck or pierce through their eyes.
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This works great with skies that hold a few clouds, or even thunderclouds, especially at sunset or sunrise, but it’s best to avoid this placement if you have a dull, clear sky unless you’re capturing something in the sky itself like an aircraft or the “Lone Tree” in Harbour Island, in the Bahamas.Įven in this silhouette, I placed the horizon line at the lower third of the frame since the sky was interesting plus the tree’s height requires it too. The lower third placement is great if your goal is to emphasize a sky, especially a dramatic sky. In general, you avoid placing your horizon in the center by following the Rule of Thirds, thus placing your horizon either at the upper third of the frame or the lower third. This mirror effect is always great for landscapes especially in an area like Lake Louise in Alberta where often the still waters provide for a beautiful mirrored effect. They are the rule-breaker images that work. There is one great use for a centered horizon in a photo, a photo filled with a reflection, thus the scene and the reflected scene create an appealing balance in our image. Change lenses as this can also help and medium telephoto or telephoto lenses will actually compress and magnify your background. The solution to avoid this is easy, lower or raise your camera lens to change the perspective or your field of view.
When photographing a person included with a horizon background, it’s considered poor composition if the horizontal line formed by the horizon cuts through your subject’s eyes or beheads them at the shoulders. Notice the horizon line is just below the top of her shoulders.īreaking a horizontal line is easily achieved with vertical lines, other shapes or objects in the scene, or even placing a person in the scene. Rebecca stands under a SUN-SWATTER and is illuminated with a SUNBOUNCE MINI fitted with the SPARKLING SUN fabric. We’re just used to the predominance of horizontal in our everyday life, perhaps this is why photographers often overlook the importance of horizontal placements in their photos and why most non-professional photographers tend to shoot more horizontals than verticals. Think of geometric shapes that surround us, a loaf of bread, a car, a couch, the television set, even calendars meant to view over a long period of time and our world is filled with horizontal rectangles all around us. This is one reason, besides shelf-space, that magazines and books tend to take on a more powerful vertical perspective-vertical is not only phallic, but not the norm for things around us in our daily lives. This repetitive perspective, especially since our human view through our eyes is horizontal and things like a television or computer monitor are traditionally horizontal too, horizontal basically becomes boring. Our brains are traditionally programmed to the horizontal perspective as every day the sun rises from the horizon and sets in the horizon and because of that, this photo could pass as a sunrise or sunset photo.
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