Flare
I received this photo from a past student, and I always like to include what that person had said. The reason why is because a lot of you out there has had similar questions, or has come up against similar issues or ideas. Here’s what Anna Maria had to say:
“Dear Joe:
I took a class with you at the BPSOP a couple of years ago.
After reading your post “My Favorite Quotes: Hank Williams” I was interested in having a critique of this picture I took last week at the roman theater of Mérida (Spain). As I read in your post, I was trying to chase the light taking pictures of my daughter.
I wanted to know your critique since I am not sure if the rays of light causing that chromatic aberration are very distracting or is the opposite and they make the picture more interesting.
Thanks in advance,”
Anna Maria
These are “rays of light”
This comes up quite frequently in my online classes with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct around the planet. In this photo Anna called them “rays of light”. It’s not rays of light, but flare as a result from the light source close to the edge of the frame.
Take a look at this video:
http://www.screencast.com/t/rfLefcFNP
It’s a nice photo Anna, thanks for submitting it. I would have composed it so the child was leaving the frame to imply content outside of the frame and generate more Visual Tension.
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This photo is beautiful, the flare unfortunately is a huge problem here.
To me it’s fine to have the little girl in that position to leave room for the action, instead of putting her on the edge of the frame to increase even more tension, in this particular case, especially because of the subject (very young, starting point, etc. comes to my mind as themes implied in it).
Valeriano,
Leaving room for what action? The exact same action of bouncing the ball across the frame? Who cares, really? Maybe if the viewer gets lucky, she’ll trip so the action could at least be different. Otherwise, a small child bouncing a ball across the frame is not very exciting…unless it’s your kid.
JoeB