![]() ![]() 'Guarding the jars' by Jeroen van de Wiel ' Symphony unfinished.' by Thierry Dufour Our eyes follow things that have the least amount of interruption along paths, lines and curves, perceiving elements arranged along the way as being related to each other, Another aspect is that, when there are lines going in a particular direction, it is assumed that they continue in this direction even out of the frame. Patterns appear to create harmony, and a break in a pattern introduces a sense of dissonance.Īreas in a composition with points of interest, emphasis or difference will hold the viewers’ attention better than if they were absent.Įlements that are parallel to each other appear to be more related to each other than other elements that are not. The human eye finds that objects sharing visual characteristics such as shape, size, colour and texture, belong together. Let’s have a look at some of these principles and how they relate to photography, bearing in mind that there may be more than one principle used in any one photograph. Interestingly, our individual life experiences may have a lot to do with how the small things influence the bigger picture, and so different people may see different things in the big picture. When we look at a picture, we see the whole but subconsciously, the parts, the small details and how they are put together, influence what we see as the whole. ![]() ![]() In German, Gestalt means form, or the way in which things are put together, so it is not surprising that some of the Gestalt principles have changed the way artists look at composition. The effect on composition in art and photography, however, has been much more long-standing. This school of thought was part of the foundation of modern perception theory but was short-lived in psychological circles and nowadays only merits a mention in introductory courses on perception. Their proposition was that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. They proposed that we do not automatically focus on small details and components, but rather on the whole picture. The Gestalt School of Thoughtarose just over 100 years ago as some psychologists started looking at the human mind and behaviour holistically, rather than as a combination of parts. ![]()
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