Week 5 Compositional Studies

While I was reading about photo composition, I was amazed to see all that I could do.  One of the biggest things that I thought was interesting was balancing the picture.  I never thought of having to put something on the other side to balance out and gauge the strength of an object to balance it correctly.  It's a kit to work with along with everything else.  Another one was viewpoint, i always knew that viewpoint could be important, but I never think about it enough.  Of course I had never thought of taking a low or high angle shot either, or at least not in a conscious sense.  Having these thoughts in my mind should be able to help me figure things out!  I can see why it is important to take MANY MANY pictures of a subject under different conditions, seeing how easy that is to do with a digital camera.
In photos, aesthetics is important because it is judging whether something is "good or bad" in your own eyes.  If you don't like the pictures you are taking, then try something different that will please you.  Since aesthetics is opinion based it leads to a whole bunch of creativity and ideas being put into photos, which is why there is so much variety between pictures.  That is what I think about that.
One thing I noticed that I learned from filmography is that 3 point lighting does not really seem to be part of anything, most photographers use the shadows produced by one or two lights to create a certain feel , which of course is what makes good pictures.  It is possible that 3 point lightning is only used in things like school photos, but I do not know.  Hmmm... Just a thought.

Josh