The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide

PART 3

DIVIDING

There is not always something to divide in an image. Think horizon line and you have the cleanest and clearest example of a necessary division, but many images are just too complex, or too simple, to lend themselves to any useful kind of division. At its crudest, you need lines to divide a frame, and the straighter they are, the cleaner the partition. Horizons are known and expected, and in a way are the equivalent of the single subject against a plain background that opened the last chapter (page 30). That is, you have to put them somewhere: high, middle, or low. But there are other lines that may sneak up on you and insist on ...