What: The brief of this exercise was locating a area with a neutral horizon and compose several photos where the horizon was in differing positions in the frame.
Where: White Sands, East of Dunbar
When: Just after noon.
How: I locked the camera of in a tripod and by tilting the camera up and down took photographs where the horizon was either in the middle, towards the top of the frame and towards the bottom of the frame. Each photo was then examined to see what impact moving the horizon had done to the composition of the photograph.
The first sequence of photographs I took for this exercise when reviewed before posting did not look “right”. Due to the complete lack of clouds on the day, the sky appeared as just a blue bank which just did not appeal to me at all. I waited until I had a day where it was not raining and I had some clouds in the sky before reshooting the sequence. As before I locked the camera off on a tripod and just moved the head back and forwards to reposition the horizon.
The first photograph is where the horizon is positioned at the top of the image, almost out of the frame completely.
f/22 1/30 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
I like this photograph as the beach stretches off into the distance, and the tide line draws the eye from left to right into the image. The horizon is so far off into the distance that you almost think you can see the curvature of the earth.
The second photograph the camera was raised slightly so that the horizon was now in the frame and the foreground was reduced slightly
f/22 1/40 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
In this photograph the foreground looses a little of its impact, although now you can see the clouds in the sky. I feel that my eye is drawn less to the foreground and the tide line in the mid-ground, but instead I feel that I am drawn more towards the horizon.
The third photograph the camera was again raised slightly so that the horizon was now almost right in the middle of the frame.
f/22 1/40 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
In this photograph the sky has a greater impact on the image and that it is now balancing off the ground below, again I still feel drawn to the beach part of the image due to the patterns and shapes of the stones, but I also feel my eye being drawn up into the sky to examine the clouds.
The fourth photograph the camera was again raised slightly so that the horizon was now right in the middle of the frame.
f/22 1/50 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
In this photograph the horizon is almost bang in the middle of the frame. There is little of the beach foreground left. I feel that my eye is allowed to roam around the image, as the image is quite balanced .
The fifth photograph the camera was again raised slightly so that the horizon was now a little below the middle of the frame and the sky was now the dominant part of the image.
f/22 1/50 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
I feel that there is little to separate this image from where the horizon is in the middle. There is little of the beach left in the foreground. The eye is drawn now the beach into the mid-ground and the horizon. The sky is well balanced here and creates balance in the image between the elements below and above the horizon.
The sixth photograph the camera was again raised slightly so that the horizon was now well below the middle of the frame and now is positioned almost at a third of the image from the bottom
f/22 1/50 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
Looking back at this image, although the horizon was positioned straight across the image, it appears that it is slanted slightly to the left. This is a bit of an optical illusion caused by the shape of the beach in the mid-ground on the right hand side of the image. I quite like this image as I am drawn up to the sky and to the clouds. It helps to show the depth of field of the image and show that there is a great distance off to the horizon.
The seventh and last photograph the camera was again raised slightly so that the horizon was now almost at the bottom of the frame.
f/22 1/50 ISO 100 18mm (35mm Equivalent 27mm)
I feel in this image that the depth of field and distance have been lost. The sky dominates the image and with almost no foreground and the horizon being so low that there is now an imbalance between all the elements in the photograph.
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