Balance photography

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a boat is in the water between two large rocks and another rock outcropping

Have you ever looked at a really nice photo and felt that something was just not quite right? A feeling that something is jarring but you can’t quite put your finger on it. There is a good chance that the image is visually unbalanced. Even a good composition can look jarring if some of the elements in it are not balanced. But what is visual balance and how do we create it. Today we are going to delve into its mysteries and hopefully shine a light on this important but underrated…

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an apartment building with balconies and balcony railings

Rhythm is something found throughout the creative arts. We tap our toes and snap our fingers to the rhythm of the music. We find rhythm in poetry and stories. And we have rhythm in photography, too.

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an overhead view of the glass roof of a building

When you think ‘balance,’ an image may come to mind of a scale, equally weighted on both sides. When it comes to photographs, balance doesn’t necessarily

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a stack of rocks sitting on top of each other

I decided to take half an hour out to meditate between work/lunch/dentist. I have bowls of stones collected from different places and these are the most difficult to balance - probably to do with the weight and size because they were collected for aesthetic not balance-ability reasons. This is one of my favourite forms of meditation . . .

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