{"id":5037,"date":"2012-01-10T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2012-01-09T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T06:22:49","slug":"composition-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5037","title":{"rendered":"Composition and contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to show a simple example of how powerful a point of high contrast can be in a composition.\u00a0 Despite the small size of the light coloured branch it&#8217;s contrast against the darker tree\u00a0pulls the eye to it.\u00a0 In this case it is not the intended center of interest and\u00a0it therefore\u00a0detracts from the image.\u00a0 While it is no longer strictly a photograph but also a manipulated image it is a better and simpler composition.\u00a0 So would we say the same thing if I had done the pruning then and there as opposed to digitally?\u00a0 That I will leave to you to decide.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5038\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Point.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5038\" title=\"Point\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Point.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Point.jpg 1408w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Point-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Point-1024x756.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to show a simple example of how powerful a point of high contrast can be in a composition.\u00a0 Despite the small size of the light coloured branch it&#8217;s contrast against the darker tree\u00a0pulls the eye to it.\u00a0 In this case it is not the intended center of interest and\u00a0it therefore\u00a0detracts from the image.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[22,364],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition-photography","category-photography","tag-composition","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}