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In the beginner stage of photography, many people may simply pay attention to all kinds of composition when arranging the content of the picture, while ignoring a very important influence factor of the picture-the sense of balance.

The sense of balance is not an opposite factor to composition, it should cooperate with composition, it can also be said to be one of the laws that composition should follow, and it is also a very important foundation.

Let's first take a look at two photos to get an intuitive feel:

The above two photos are both classic three-pronged composition, but it is obvious that the first one looks more comfortable, while the second one looks "weird" because the left and right side of the picture is very uneven and uncomfortable.

This shows that when we arrange the picture, we should not only regard the composition as a formula and apply it directly, but also start from the picture as a whole, especially pay attention to the sense of balance of the picture.

Let's look at another picture:

The most intuitive flaw in this photo is that it is crooked and a little uncomfortable to look at, which is also a sign of breaking the balance, so we will emphasize that in addition to the special theme, we will try to be "horizontal and vertical" when shooting.

There is also a performance that affects balance, and we are also looking at a picture:

You should be able to see that the influence of this photo on the sense of balance is mainly due to the imbalance of proportion, that is, due to perspective reasons such as shooting angle and distance, which leads to the imbalance of the size of the scene in the picture and makes the photo seem out of balance. but a reasonable match can also make the photo look interesting.

From this we can see that the sense of balance of the photos has been disrupted mainly due to three problems:

1. The arrangement of the internal elements in the photo is unreasonable, such as "top-heavy", "left big and right small", "left with or without" and other problems, the picture is not balanced up and down, left and right, diagonal and so on.

"Top-heavy" 2. This problem can be caused by the skew of the photo, the exaggerated lens distortion that does not achieve "horizontal and vertical" and the lack of a flat camera when shooting.

3. The imbalance of internal elements is generally caused by shooting angle, shooting distance and so on.

We can basically see all the problems mentioned above directly, and they are also relatively basic mistakes, which can be avoided with a little attention. Here are a few more points for attention:

1. Pay attention to the blank position you should notice that many picture imbalance problems are related to the blank position. If there is a large area of white space on one side of the photo, and the corresponding other side is full, the imbalance may occur.

There is some imbalance between the left and the right, and the vertical composition will be better. The meaningless unilateral blank will easily lead to the imbalance of the picture. We can try to build the balance in a symmetrical way.

two。 Visual principles the sense of balance of the picture is also an embodiment of our logic, there are certain principles, the most obvious is the "top-heavy" problem.

Generally speaking, we do not make the upper part of the picture particularly complex and the lower part empty, and we usually do not leave too much space in the lower part of the picture. We can not ignore these visual principles while paying attention to the sense of balance.

3. The sense of balance is not an absolute sense of balance, which often needs to be adjusted according to the specific scene. It cannot be said that absolute balance is correct. For example, if special emphasis is placed on the sense of balance, it seems that the bipartite composition is more reasonable. However, because the trisection method is in line with the golden section ratio, it will look more comfortable.

So what we need to pay attention to is that our eyes are a good yardstick for judging balance. When shooting, we have to avoid obvious mistakes in balance, and mistakes in some details are often unavoidable. We can also make certain sacrifices.

4. The unbalanced picture of doing the opposite may seem illogical, but it may also attract more attention, and we can use this sense of imbalance to express our thoughts.

As we mentioned above, "top-heavy" will show a sense of instability, if we happen to want to show a shaky, unstable feeling, then the use of this unbalanced picture layout can better express our ideas.

The interesting misplaced photos actually take advantage of the imbalance of the picture proportion to some extent.

The sense of balance of the picture is very delicate, sometimes a little change the position can add a lot of color to the photo, and unbalanced photos can not be directly said to be "bad photos", the use of good imbalance, can also take meaningful photos.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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